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  • In what Circumstances Is It Possible for a Court to Award Exemplary Damages in Tort?

     

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ID number:241760
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Published: 09.01.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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Exemplary damages, also known as punitive damages, are granted in some tort cases to "express the court's disapproval of what the defendant has done" . The principles of exemplary damages in tort laws are laid out in the decision of the House of Lord in Rookes v Barnard . In that case, Lord Devlin classified the cases in which the plaintiff is entitled to claim exemplary damages into three categories, namely:
(1)"oppressive arbitrary or unconstitutional action by the servants of the government" ,
(2)"the defendant's conduct has been calculated by him to make a profit for himself which may well exceed the compensation payable to the plaintiff" ,
(3)"where exemplary damages are expressly authorised by statute."
Even though Lord Devlin's restriction was rejected in many common law jurisdictions such as Canada and New Zealand , the Hong Kong courts follow strictly with the restriction.

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