McGregor on Damages, 22nd Edition with 2nd Supplement | 2026*

McGregor on Damages, 22nd Edition with 2nd Supplement | 2026*

McGregor on Damages, part of the Common Law Library, remains a leading authority on the law of damages, providing comprehensive coverage of both the general principles and specific areas of common law damages. For over 60 years, it has been an essential reference for practitioners dealing with claims for compensation.

The work examines the principles governing the assessment, causation, mitigation, and recovery of damages, alongside detailed analysis of specific contractual, tortious, and equitable claims. It incorporates the latest developments in case law, including significant decisions from the UK Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Privy Council, and High Court of Australia.

Key Features of McGregor on Damages, 22nd Edition with 2nd Supplement:

• Comprehensive analysis of damages law, incorporating significant recent judicial developments.
• Detailed treatment of general principles and specific heads of damages across different areas of law.
• Examination of common law and equitable remedies, including differences in the assessment of compensation.
• Analysis of causation, intervening acts, remoteness, and mitigation of loss.
• Updated guidance on liquidated damages and penalties.
• Coverage of damages arising from late delivery of goods, defective building work, and long-term contracts.
• Analysis of uncertainty and loss of a chance in damages claims.
• Coverage of damages in contracts, including sale of goods, sale of shares, cryptocurrency, charterparties, building work, and interest.
• Coverage of torts and equitable wrongs, including deceit, professional responsibility, cumulative exposure torts, intellectual property, and disgorgement of profits.
• Recent developments concerning consequential loss clauses, scope of duty, rescission, and quantum of damages for claims including assault, false imprisonment, harassment, libel, and slander.
• Incorporates recent decisions from leading courts, keeping practitioners up to date with the latest developments in damages law.

Table of Contents of McGregor on Damages, 22nd Edition with 2nd Supplement:

1. The Meaning of Damages and Compensation at Common Law and in Equity

2. The Object of Compensatory Damages at Common Law

3. The Common Law Terminology in Compensatory Damages and in Consequential Loss Claims

4. Equitable Damages

5. Pecuniary Losses

6. Non-Pecuniary Losses

7. The General Problem of Limits

8. Reduction of Damages for Contributory Negligence

9. Causation of Damage, Scope of Duty, and Remoteness of Damage

10. Mitigation of Damage

11. Certainty of Damage, Presumptions of Damage, and Loss of Chance

12. Past and Prospective Damage

13. Nominal Damages

14. Exemplary Damages

15. Licence Fee (Negotiating or User) Damages

16. Account and Disgorgement of Profits

17. Liquidated Damages and Penalties

18. Vindicatory Damages

19. The Incidence of Taxation

20. The Awarding of Interest

21. The Effect of Changes in Value

22. Costs, Damages and Fines in Previous Proceedings

23. Undertakings as to Damages

24. Damages in Actions Surviving Death

25. The Measure of Damages in Contract Compared with Torts

26. Sale of Goods

27. Hire and Hire-Purchase of Goods

28. Sale of Land

29. Lease of Land

30. Sale of Shares and Loan of Stock

31. Contracts to Pay or to Lend Money

32. Construction Contracts

33. Contracts of Carriage

34. Contracts of Employment

35. Contracts for Professional and Other Services

36. Contracts Concerning Principal and Agent

37. Contracts of Warranty of Authority by Agent

38. Torts Affecting Goods Damage and Destruction

39. Torts Affecting Goods Misappropriation

40. Torts Affecting Land

41. Torts Causing Personal Injury

42. Torts Causing Death

43. Assault and False Imprisonment

44. Statutory Torts Discrimination, Harassment and Intentional Infliction of Harm

45. Malicious Institution of Legal Proceedings

46. Misfeasance in Public Office

47. Defamation

48. Privacy, Confidence and Private Information

49. Economic Torts and Intellectual Property Wrongs

50. Misrepresentation

51. Damages under the Human Rights Act

52. Pre-Action Conduct, the Statement of Case and Case Management to Trial

53. The Trial

54. Appeals

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