Liquidated damages Gagan Anand

Note: This article was originally published in Asia Pacific Regional Forum News, Volume 21 No. 2, August 2014 of the Newsletter and is reproduced by kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK. © International Bar Association. To read the original article, click here Liquidated damages are an area of law that seems to mystify many legal scholars. In 1854, a New York Court of Appeals judge remarked that even the ‘ablest judges have declared that they felt themselves embarrassed in ascertaining the principle on which the decisions… were founded.’ This comment has remained strikingly valid. Simply stated, the courts continue...

Continue reading