ABSTRACT

At various points during the earlier chapters, remedies of one kind or another have been considered. Rescission and damages for misrepresentation were discussed in Chapter 10, for example, and rescission for mistake in Chapter 11. The ‘self-help’ remedies of withholding performance and terminating on the basis of repudiatory breach were dealt with in Chapter 18.2 Here, we are considering more generally the award of damages for breach of contract, and the order of ‘specific performance’, which will instruct a party to perform its obligations under an agreement. Some more general references to injunctions will also be necessary.3