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Public interest damages
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2020
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This paper argues that punitive, nominal, contemptuous, vindicatory, and disgorgement damages (commonly referred to as non-compensatory damages) can be collectively analysed as public interest damages because all these awards are justified by violations of public interests in addition to violations of the claimant's rights. To the extent they are awarded in the public interest, non-compensatory damages feature a distinctively public element in private law. In contrast to compensatory damages, public interest damages are justified by ‘non-correlative wrongdoing’, ie infringements of interests which are valuable to the community rather than to the claimant. This helps us to understand how public interest damages differ from traditional damages awards and why public interest damages should be treated as an exceptional remedy. In support of these claims, the paper offers an original analytic framework of reasons that justify damages awards.
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I am most grateful to my supervisor James Goudkamp for his many helpful suggestions and comments on earlier versions of this paper. Special thanks are also due to Kit Barker, John Bell, Karel Beran, Leo Boonzaier, Andrew Burrows, Peter Cane, Matthew Dyson, Eleni Katsampouka, Tom Kohavi, William Lucy, Ulrich Magnus, Jason Neyers, Joshua Pike, Sandy Steel, David Winterton, Benjamin C Zipursky, anonymous referees for Legal Studies, the Modern Law Review and The Cambridge Law Journal, and to participants in the Obligation Discussion Group workshop (Oxford, May 2018) and the Obligations IX Conference (Melbourne, July 2018). All mistakes are mine. This research was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (project reg no 16–22016S: ‘Legal Transactions and Legal Responsibility of Juristic Persons’); the Oxford Law Faculty Doctoral Scholarship and Travel Fund; St Edmund Hall's Graduate Travel Fund; St Edmund Hall's MCR Academic Grant; Max Planck Doctoral Scholarship.
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148 Ibid, pp 191 and 212ff. The relevant awards are often labelled account of profits in these cases.
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162 [2009] EWHC 225 (QB) at [73].
163 Ibid, at [69].
164 Ibid, at [71].
165 Novoship (UK) Ltd v Mikhaylyuk [2015] QB 499 at [71] (further cases are listed in that paragraph).
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171 Gardner, above n 92, at 53.
172 Knauer v Ministry of Justice [2016] AC 908 at [21] per Lord Neuberger and Baroness Hale.
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