Public interest damages
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11220%2F20%3A10412745" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11220/20:10412745 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=~vyt_wtkFC" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=~vyt_wtkFC</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lst.2020.2" target="_blank" >10.1017/lst.2020.2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Public interest damages
Original language description
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
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-22016S" target="_blank" >GA16-22016S: Legal Transactions and Legal Responsibility of Juristic Persons</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Legal Studies
ISSN
0261-3875
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
20.7.
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1-20
UT code for WoS article
000591605000004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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