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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

Conflict of Laws

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g.

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Third-party arbitration funding – Comparative analysis and Indian Perspective

LexForti

This was further supported when the Criminal Law Act, of 1967 did away with these crimes and torts of “maintenance” and “champerty”. It was held by the Privy Council in Ram Chandoo v. Chunder Mookerjee[31] that “TPF agreements are not inherently contrary to public policy”.

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