acg39@cam.ac.uk
College Contact Details
Room: Room P3, Second Court
University Associate Professor
M.A. (Cantab.); B.C.L. (Oxon.)
Interests
Aspects of Obligations; Land Law; Restitution
Research centres and interest groups
Selected publications
Books
Policy, Politics and Private Law Volume II: Contract, Commercial and Company Law (ed)), forthcoming
Co-editor(s):
Jodi Gardner, Janet O'Sullivan, Sarah Worthington
Publisher:
Published Forthcoming
Policy, Politics and Private Law Volume I: Tort, Property and Equity (ed), 2023)
Co-editor(s):
Jodi Gardner, Janet O'Sullivan, Sarah Worthington
Publisher:
ISBN:
9781509960965
Published Dec 2023
New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions (ed), 2018)
Co-editor(s):
Stephen Watterson and Martin Dixon
Publisher:
Link:
ISBN 13:
9781509906031
Published Feb 2018
Articles
"Mistaken Registrations of Land: Exploding the Myth of 'Title by Registration'" [2013] CLJ 617
Citation:
[2013] CLJ 617
Published: Nov 2013
"Testing the Boundaries of Conversion - Account-holders, Intangible Property and Economic Harm'" [2012] LMCLQ 204
Citation:
[2012] LMCLQ 204
Published: May 2012
"Conversion of Contractual Rights" [2011] LMCLQ 67-91
Citation:
[2011] LMCLQ 67-91
Published: Jan 2011
"A Contribution to Knowing Receipt Liability?" [2008] RLR 113-124
Citation:
[2008] RLR 113-124
Published: Jan 2008
"Village Greens and the Fight Against Development" (2007) 18 KLJ 145-157
Citation:
(2007) 18 KLJ 145-157
Published: Jan 2007
"Proprietary Claims and Human Rights – a "Reservoir of Entitlement"?" [2006] CLJ 696-719
Citation:
[2006] CLJ 696-719
Published: Jan 2006
Book Chapters
"Priorities, Doctrinalism and Policy in Property Law Scott v Southern Pacific Mortgages [2014] UKSC 52" in Jenny Russell, Lewis Graham (ed(s)), The Supreme Court at 15: Reflections on Private Law), forthcoming
Publisher:
Published Forthcoming
"A Tale of Three Promises: (2) The Priority Promise" (with Stephen Watterson), New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions, 2018), pp. 313-377
Publisher:
Pages:
313-377
ISBN 13:
9781509906031
Published Feb 2018
"A Tale of Three Promises: (3) The Empowerment Promise" (with Stephen Watterson), New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions, 2018), pp. 379-409
Publisher:
Pages:
379-409
ISBN 13:
9781509906031
Published Feb 2018
"The Continuing Relevance of Relativity of Title Under the Land Registration Act 2002" (with Robin Hickey), New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions, 2018), pp. 65-93
Publisher:
Pages:
65-93
ISBN 13:
9781509906031
Published Feb 2018
"A Tale of Three Promises: Setting the Scene" (with Stephen Watterson), New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions, 2018), pp. 277-280
Publisher:
Pages:
277-280
ISBN 13:
9781509906031
Published Feb 2018
"A Tale of Three Promises: (1) The Title Promise" (with Stephen Watterson), New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions, 2018), pp. 281-312
Publisher:
Pages:
281-312
ISBN 13:
9781509906031
Published Feb 2018
"Remedies for Vindicating Ownership Rights in Real Property" in Graham Virgo and Sarah Worthington (ed(s)), Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies, 2017), pp. 173-202
Publisher:
Pages:
173-202
ISBN 13:
9781107171329
Published Aug 2017
"Knowing Receipt and Registered Land" (with M Conaglen) in C Mitchell (ed(s)), Constructive and Resulting Trusts (2010), 2010), pp. 159-182
"Reflections on the Restitution Revolution" (with Elise Bant, Mitchel McInnes, Helen Scott, Sir Terence Etherton MR), Revolution and Evolution in Private Law, 2018)
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781509913244
Link
Published Jan 2018
"Bruton v London & Quadrant Housing Trust: Relativity of title, and the regulation of the ‘proprietary underworld’" (with Simon Douglas, Robin Hickey, Emma Waring), Landmark Cases in Property Law, 2015), pp. 151-178
Publisher:
Pages:
151-178
ISBN 13:
9781849466080
Published Mar 2015
"Conversion of Contractual Rights" (with S Bright), Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume VI (2011), 2011), pp. 333-359
"Property and Housing" (with D Hoffman), The Impact of the Human Rights Act on Private Law in England and Wales (2011), 2011), pp. 249-299
"The Creation of Rights in Property by the Effluxion of Time" (with E Cooke), Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume IV (2007), 2007), pp. 169-196
Book Reviews
Book review of Edelman and Degeling (eds), Unjust Enrichment in Commercial Law (2009) 125 LQR 699
Published Jan 2009
Book review of A Clarke and P Kohler, Property Law: Commentary and Materials [2007] CLJ 233
Published Jan 2007
Book review of E Burn and J Cartwright (eds), Cheshire and Burn’s Law of Real Property [2007] 71 Conv 391
Published Jan 2007
Book review of A Burrows and Lord Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (2007) 18 KLJ 371
Published Jan 2007
Book review of H Dagan, Ethics and the Law of Restitution [2006] CLJ 456
Published Jan 2006
Case Notes
‘Stack v Dowden revisited: Co-ownership, Survivorship, and presumptions’ [2024] CLJ 222
Published: Jul 2024
Avoiding Restitution of Tax [2012] CLJ 488
Published: May 2014
Possession proceedings and human rights - the final word? [2011] CLJ 9
Published: Jan 2011
Unlawful tax: tantalizing glimpses of restitution [2010] CLJ 232
Published: Jan 2010
Cobbling together claims where a contract fails to materialise [2009] CLJ 37
Published: Jan 2009
Easements, Servitudes and the Right to Park [2008] CLJ 20
Published: Jan 2008
Too many cooks: three parties, contracts and unjust enrichment [2008] CLJ 469
Published: Jan 2008
Premature tax payments and unjust enrichment [2007] CLJ 24
Published: Jan 2007
Dishonesty in the context of assistance – again [2006] CLJ 18
Published: Jan 2006
Rabbits Beware: residents gain rights to drive over common land [2005] CLJ 39
Published: Jan 2005
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