Uni Melb Remedies Intensive 83% Exam Notes

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Overview - Best suited remedy? 4 Common examples of grounds 4 Contract 5 Breach of K – overview 5 Step 1 – breach of obligation 5 Step 2 – establish loss 5 Step 3 – what is the measure of damages? 6 Step – Loss of profits – damages as expectation loss (commercial contracts where aim is to profit) 7 Step - Difference in value (cases of defective goods or failure to deliver) 8 Step 4 - If this measure is not available, impossible to calculate, speculative or inadequate in the circumstances, think of another way to measure the 9 Step – Rectification damages (cost of rectifying defective contractual performance) (Bellgrove; Tabcorp) 9 Step – Reliance damages (the expenditure(s) P wasted in reliance on D’s promise (as a proxy for expectation)) 11 Step – Damages for disappointment or distress (contract for enjoyment, and various other categories of case) 14 Step - Damages for loss of amenity (contract for enjoyment, and various other categories of case) 15 Step - Loss of chance and loss of opportunity (value of a lost chance of a chance to gain something through the contract) 15 Step 5 – Causation 15 Step 6 – Remoteness 16 Assumption of responsibility – UK Approach 18 Step 7 – Mitigation 18 Step 8 – Debt 19 Step 9 – Available relief 20 Step – Penalty 20 Step – Vindicatory damages 24 Step – Exemplary & aggravated damages 24 Step – Specific performance 24 Step – Injunction 29 Step - Statutory damages – Lord Cairns’ Act 33 Step – Negotiating damages 36 Step - Disgorgement/account of profits 36 Step – Rescission 38 Exceptions to notice requirement: D is deliberately evading communication (Caldwell) 46 Damages in tort 49 Tortious breach – overview 49 Introduction 49 Step 1 – Identify the relevant wrong 49 Step 2 – Measure of damages 51 Step 3 – Limits on tort damages 57 Step 4 – Available relief 63 Step – Vindicatory damages 63 Step – Exemplary damages 64 Step – Injunction 64 Step - Statutory damages – Lord Cairns’ Act 68 Step – Account of profits 71 Step – User damages 73 Breach of ACL 76 ACL s18 breach – overview 76 Introduction 76 Step 1 – Compensatory damages 77 Step 2 – Has P suffered actual loss or damage? 77 Step 3 – Measure of damages 78 Step 4 – when to measure loss? 80 Step 5 – Causation and remoteness 80 Step 5 – Available remedies 83 Step – Vindicatory damages 83 Step – Exemplary damages 83 Step – Final Injunctions 84 Step - Interlocutory injunctions 84 Step – Recission 84 Equitable wrongs 87 Equity – overview 87 Step 1 – Identify the relevant wrong 87 Step 2 – Forms of Equitable Accounting 88 Step 3 - Disgorgement in equity 91 Disgorgement at equity – V2 93 Step 4 – Exemplary damages 96 Step 5 – Final injunctions 96 Step 6 - Interlocutory injunctions 97 Step 7 - Statutory damages – Lord Cairns’ Act 98 Step 8 – Equitable recission 100 Exceptions to notice requirement: D is deliberately evading communication (Caldwell) 104 Unjust enrichment 108 Defective contract, unjust enrichment – overview 108 Analysis 108