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Corrective Justice And The Unlawful Means Tort: Is There A Right To Trade?, Kerry Sun
Corrective Justice And The Unlawful Means Tort: Is There A Right To Trade?, Kerry Sun
Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies
This paper investigates the extent to which the theory of corrective justice can account for the purpose, structure, and elements of the tort of unlawful interference with economic relations. It considers various proposed accounts of the tort, contending that the tort cannot be justified as an exception to the privity doctrine, a response to the defendant’s attempts to assert indirect control over the plaintiff, or a form of liability stretching. Extending a proposed account of the tort based on the theory of abuse of rights, this paper develops the idea of a “right to trade” that is founded on the …