A Company's Right to Damages for Non-Pecuniary Loss

This detailed examination explores the extent to which non-pecuniary damages can properly be awarded to companies.

Vanessa Wilcox (Author)

9781107139275, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 September 2016

228 pages, 2 tables
23.6 x 15.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.47 kg

'… the arguments are developed [with overall ease and simplicity] throughout the whole book. This makes Vanessa Wilcox's work, A Company's Right to Damages for Non-Pecuniary Loss, interesting and valuable for everyone who is attracted to the intricacies of the relevant areas of law and wishes to gain a better understanding of the direction of its future development.' Zlatin Zlatev, Modern Law Review

Applying appropriate legal rules to companies with as much consistency and as little consternation as possible remains a challenge for legal systems. One area causing concern is the availability of damages for non-pecuniary loss to companies, a disquiet that is rooted in the very nature of such damages and of companies themselves. In this book, Vanessa Wilcox presents a detailed examination of the extent to which damages for non-pecuniary loss can be properly awarded to companies. The book focusses on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and English law, with a chapter also dedicated to comparative treatment. While the law must be adaptable, Wilcox concludes that considerations of coherency, certainty and ultimately justice dictate that the resulting rules should conform to certain core legal principles. This book lays the foundation for further comparative research into this topic and will be of interest to both the tort law and broader legal community.

Preface
Part I. Background: 1. Introduction
2. Corporations, damage and damages
Part II. The European Court of Human Rights: 3. Corporate rights under the ECHR
4. EctHR's approach to corporate non-pecuniary loss
Part III. English Law: 5. Tort law and the corporation
6. Aggravated damages for corporate victims?
7. Attribution theory
Part IV. Comparative Analysis and Conclusion: 8. Comparative analysis
9. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Torts / Delicts [LNV], Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], Contract law [LNCJ], Law [L]