Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
EXEMPLARY AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN CONTRACT AND TORT
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v. Pilot Insurance
A.
v. Bottrill
Damages in pursuit of goals other than compensation have been the object of recent consideration both in the House of Lords1
and the Canadian Supreme Court.2
Now the higher courts have had further opportunity to consider in greater detail the award of
1. A.-G.
v. Blake
[2001] 1 A.C. 268; Kuddus
v. Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary
[2002] 2 A.C. 122; and, by extension, Farley
v. Skinner
[2001] U.K.H.L. 49; [2001] 3 W.L.R. 899.
2. Royal Bank of Canada
v. W. Got & Associates Ltd
(2000) 178 D.L.R. (4th) 385.
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