CURRENT EDITIONS

Goff & Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment
8th Edition
(Formerly Goff & Jones: The Law of Restitution)
Professor Charles Mitchell, University College London, Professor Paul Mitchell, University College London, Dr Stephen Watterson, London School of Economics

"Nowhere else can such a thorough exhaustive and accurate analysis of the multifarious aspects of the law of unjust enrichment be found."
New Law Journal

Part of the Common Law Library, Goff & Jones on the Law of Unjust Enrichment analyses the underlying principles of the law of unjust enrichment and covers all aspects of the subject. The new edition guides you on key issues such as how to formulate and plead a claim in unjust enrichment, how to identify the remedies to which the claimant may be entitled, and, conversely, how to defend a claim.

NEW IN THE 8TH EDITION

  • A new writing team of established experts in the field ensures you have the latest and most reliable reference tool
  • Provides a clear introduction to the principles behind unjust enrichment
  • Covers of the essential ingredients of a claim
    • - Enrichment
    • - At the claimant's expense
    • - In circumstances that the law deems unjust, such as mistake, undue influence,
        duress, failure of basis, necessity, secondary liability, and more
  • Covers all possible defences to claims in unjust enrichment
  • Discusses personal and proprietary remedies awarded to successful claimants such as money judgements, trusts, subrogation to extinguished rights, and rescission
  • Includes clear commentary and annotated explanation of all the recent case law

The new 8th edition covers key new cases, including:

  • Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group Plc v IRC[2007]
  • Abou-Rahmah v Abacha [2007]
  • Halpern v Halpern [2008]
  • Charter plc v City Index Ltd [2008]
  • Sempra Metals Ltd v IRC [2008]
  • Cobbe v Yeoman's Row Management Ltd [2008]
  • Monro v HMRC [2009]
  • Serious Fraud Office v Lexi Holdings plc [2009]
  • Chief Constable of Greater Manchester v Wigan Athletic AFC Ltd [2009]
  • Test Claimants in the FII Group Litigation v HMRC [2010]
  • Gibb v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2010]
  • Haugesund Kommune v Depfa ACS Bank [2011]
  • Benedetti v Sawiris [2010]
  • R (Child Poverty Action Group) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2011]
  • Pitt v Holt [2011]
  • Costello v MacDonald [2011]

December 2011
978-1-847-03910-1
£299 / €380

Contents

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 - Introduction

PART 2 - JUSTIFYING GROUNDS
Chapter 2 - Justifying Grounds: Statutes, Judgments, and Natural Obligations
Chapter 3 – Justifying Grounds: Contracts

PART 3 - ENRICHMENT
Chapter 4 - Enrichment: General Principles
Chapter 5 - Enrichment: Types of Benefit

PART 4 - AT THE CLAIMANT'S EXPENSE
Chapter 6 - At the Claimant's Expense: Personal Claims
Chapter 7 - At the Claimant's Expense: Proprietary Claims

PART 5 - GROUNDS FOR RESTITUTION
Chapter 8 - Lack of Consent and Want of Authority
Chapter 9 - Mistake
Chapter 10 - Duress
Chapter 11 - Undue Influence and Unconscionable Bargains
Chapter 12 - Failure of Basis: General Principles
Chapter 13 - Failure of Basis: Bases of Transfer
Chapter 14 – Failure of Basis: Deposits
Chapter 15 - Frustrated Contracts
Chapter 16 - Anticipated Contracts that Do Not Materialize
Chapter 17 - Free Acceptance
Chapter 18 - Necessity
Chapter 19 - Secondary Liability: Overview
Chapter 20 - Secondary Liability: Contribution and Reimbursement
Chapter 21 - Secondary Liability: Insurers' Subrogation Rights
Chapter 22 - Money Paid as Taxes and Other Levies that Are Not Due
Chapter 23 - Ultra Vires Payments by Public Bodies
Chapter 24 – Legal Incapacity
Chapter 25 - Illegality
Chapter 26 – Benefits Conferred Under Judgments and Orders that Are Later Reversed

PART 6 - DEFENCES
Chapter 27 - Change of Position
Chapter 28 - Ministerial Receipt
Chapter 29 - Bona Fide Purchase and Good Consideration
Chapter 30 - Estoppel
Chapter 31 - Counter-Restitution Impossible
Chapter 32 - Passing On
Chapter 33 - Limitation
Chapter 34 – Legal Incapacity
Chapter 35 – Illegality

PART 7 - REMEDIES
Chapter 36 - Personal Remedies
Chapter 37 - Proprietary Remedies: General Principles
Chapter 38 - Proprietary Remedies: Trusts
Chapter 39 - Proprietary Remedies: Subrogation to Extinguished Rights
Chapter 40 - Proprietary Restitutionary Remedies: Rescission


NEW AUTHOR TEAM

Charles Mitchell is a Professor of Law at University College London.

Paul Mitchell is a Professor of Law at University College London. He has published widely on the law of obligations, and is an editor of Chitty on Contracts 30th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008).

Stephen Watterson is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics.



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