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Damages
•    When discussing non-pecuniary damages (pain and suffering; loss of state of mind; etc.) law tends to view these heads of loss with suspicion.
o    Though jurisprudence says we will compensate for these, it awards these damages somewhat… begrudgingly.
•    Addis v. Gramaphone Co. – page 99 held that an employee that had been wrongfull dismissed was […]

Damages in Contract Law

Contracts and Torts
•    The relevance of tort principles and contract principles differ in different scenarios.
•    when trying to determine whether a pre-contractual utterance is of legal significance, and whether that significance sounds in contract or sounds in tort, it is an either/or choice.
•    Most pre-contractual utterances don’t have any legal significance, but supposing it does […]

Scots Law of Contracts

Heilbut, Symons, v. Buckleton p. 661 (cont’d from last day)
•    Rubber company case.
•    P not suing on the contract itself.  The contract is not a broken one.
•    The complaint is regarding what went on prior to entering into the contract.
•    At trial, P argued that “we are” is a representation; a statement of existing fact.
•    […]