730-453 Remedies

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730-453 Remedies
Credit Points	12.5
Coordinator	Associate Professor A Robertson
Prerequisites	Legal Method and Reasoning; Principles of Public Law; Torts; Obligations; Contracts; Property
Corequisites	Trusts
Semester	2 (view timetable)
Contact	Estimated total time commitment of 144 hours. Includes two 2-hour seminars per week
Subject Description	This subject involves a study of the nature, goals and structure of private law remedies and is organised around the remedial goals of compensation, coercion, restitution and punishment. Topics will include: compensation (damages for breach of contract; compensatory remedies under the Trade Practices Act; compensation and damages in equity); coercion (specific performance and injunctions); restitution (the measure of restitution, rescission, account of profits, equitable proprietary remedies); punishment in private law (aggravated and exemplary damages).
Assessment	Final open-book examination three hours 100%.
Prescribed Texts	Printed materials will be issued by the Faculty of Law. Tilbury, Noone & Kercher, Remedies: Commentary and Materials. 4th ed. 2004.

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