On Perfection of Punitive Damages System in China—from the Perspective of Promoting Social Harmony Governance

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10.2991/msmi-14.2014.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Punitive damages system, Tort relief, Social governance, Law perfection.

Abstract

Punitive damages system is designed to response to the damages caused by the malicious torts due to the defects of traditional compensatory damages system in the tort relief. Nowadays in China, the social unfairness and disharmony resulted from the lots of torts caused by the advantaged to the disadvantaged call for more applications of the punitive damages system. In practice, the current system of punitive damages system takes on many shortages, such as limited application scope, difficulties in determining the amount of compensation, willfully being infringed etc. Therefore, from the perspective of promoting social harmony governance in China, the measures such as strengthening legislation and relevant judicial interpretation and extending the application scope and so on should be taken to perfect the punitive damages system.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhi-Wei-Lin Xu
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TI  - On Perfection of Punitive Damages System in China—from the Perspective of Promoting Social Harmony Governance
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Management Science and Management Innovation
PB  - Atlantis Press
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