This week’s topics
Remedies for Breach of Contract
- Assessment of unliquidated damages and expectation loss
- Principles of causation, remoteness, and the duty to mitigate
- Liquidated damages versus unenforceable penalty clauses
- Discretionary equitable remedies: specific performance and injunctions
- Breach of Contract, Damages - ACCA Corporate and Business Law (LW) (ENG)
- Remedies to Breach of Contract - SQE 1 Contract Law Revision
- Contract Law - Remedies For Breach of Contract Part 1
What you will be able to do
- 4.2 Describe the role of equitable remedies in contractual breach.
- 4.4 Explain the meaning of damages in relation to contracts.
- 4.5 Analyse what remedies are available for breach of contract.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe the role of equitable remedies in contractual breach.
Study materials
Videos
- Breach of Contract, Damages - ACCA Corporate and Business Law (LW) (ENG) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 24 min · for registered students
- Remedies to Breach of Contract - SQE 1 Contract Law Revision · YouTube · New to Law: Study Help · 9 min · for registered students
- Contract Law - Remedies For Breach of Contract Part 1 · YouTube · Law Sessions with Jennifer Housen · 14 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi; ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis [2015] UKSC 67 · PDF · Other, case law; 93 pages · for registered students
- Business Law and the Legal Environment, ch. 16: Remedies · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 519–555 · for registered students
- Business Law I Essentials 2e, ch. 7: Contract Law · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 79–86 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
