Law 2101 Lecture 16: Law2_Lecture_16-17
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Breach of contract and remedies: there are two kinds of remedies for breach of contract, specific performance, damages. Specific performance: an order of the court compelling the party in breach to perform their part of the contract, awarded in exceptional cases where damages are inadequate remedy. Warner brothers v. nelson: betty davis signed a contract with warner bros. before she became famous, contract provided that she would render her acting services exclusively to. Damages: expectation damages, gain-based damages, issues of consequential loss/remoteness, intangible losses, punitive damages. In exceptional circumstances, the innocent party might get damages measured by the defendant"s gain: this is known as disgorgement. Ag v. blake: plaintiff was former spy for uk. In 1944 he signed undertaking not to say any information gained through employment: later wrote autobiography which was criminal offence and earned . 000 through publishing contract: uk government sued for this money.
