This article explores the nature, scope, rationale and merits of the standardisation of compensatory damages in tort law, ie the fact of giving the claimant not the value (subject to ordinary limiting principles) of his own loss, but that of the loss which an ordinary claimant placed in the same circumstances would have suffered. Standardisation happens in respect of pecuniary and non‐pecuniary losses, direct and consequential losses, and also normative losses. Its two main spurs are either that the orthodox award would not give the desired result—typically ‘too little’ damages—or that it runs into evidentiary difficulties, which the award of a typical sum overrides. While epistemic standardisation (which is not strictly standardisation) might be acceptable, the avowed granting of compensatory damages which do not aim to correspond to the claimant's own loss should be resisted, and is in any event impossible because consequential losses can never be meaningfully standardised.

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侵权赔偿的标准化

本文探讨的性质，范围，理由和损害赔偿的侵权法的标准化的优点，即给予申请人不属于自己的损失价值（受普通限制原则）的事实，但损失的其中一个处于相同情况下的普通索赔人会受苦的。标准化发生在金钱和非金钱损失，直接和间接损失以及规范性损失方面。它的两个主要冲刺要么是正统的裁决不会给出预期的结果（通常是“太少”的损害赔偿），要么是遇到了举证困难，而典型的赔偿额却无济于事。尽管可以接受认知上的标准化（不是严格的标准化），但应该反对公开宣称的不旨在与索赔人自己的损失相对应的补偿性损害赔偿，并且在任何情况下都是不可能的，因为间接损失永远都不能被有意义地标准化。