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Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis
Includes bibliographical references.
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Department of Private Law
2015
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| author | Emurwon, Brian Kwame |
| author2 | Hutchinson, Dale |
| author_browse | Emurwon, Brian Kwame Hutchinson, Dale |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12609 Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis Emurwon, Brian Kwame Hutchinson, Dale Private Law Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation's primary hypothesis is that the angst-spawning confusion plaguing this area of law stems from a feckless amalgamation of parallel, if not competing, notions of loss. Let me explain. When a promisee seeks judicial relief for breach, the court habitually applies two deeply-ingrained presumptions of fact whose status has been unconsciously elevated to rules of law.10 These judicial presumptions are that: 1. The promisee's concern is loss of performance and not loss of promise; and (After confining the matter to loss of performance) 2. The promisee's performance interest is essentially pecuniary value (profit) and not non-pecuniary value (utility). The Addis case illustrates the sad result of focusing on performance in a situation where the predominant loss caused by breach is promissory in character (Presumption 1). Farley, on the other hand, promotes the commercial agenda by perpetuating the notion that financial loss is the premier interest of contract as law (Presumption 2). This dissertation tests the above hypothesis by evaluating the prohibition on mental distress damages. 2015-03-16T10:27:44Z 2015-03-16T10:27:44Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12609 eng application/pdf Department of Private Law Faculty of Law University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Private Law Emurwon, Brian Kwame Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis |
| title_full | Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis |
| title_fullStr | Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis |
| title_short | Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis |
| title_sort | sentimental damages in english contract law a critical analysis |
| topic | Private Law |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12609 |
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