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Email

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:

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

New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions (ed), 2018)

Co-editor(s):
Stephen Watterson and Martin Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781509906031

Articles

"Mistaken Registrations of Land: Exploding the Myth of 'Title by Registration'" [2013] CLJ 617

Citation:
[2013] CLJ 617

"Testing the Boundaries of Conversion - Account-holders, Intangible Property and Economic Harm'" [2012] LMCLQ 204

Co-Author/s:
Stephen Watterson
Citation:
[2012] LMCLQ 204

"Conversion of Contractual Rights" [2011] LMCLQ 67-91

Citation:
[2011] LMCLQ 67-91

"A Contribution to Knowing Receipt Liability?" [2008] RLR 113-124

Citation:
[2008] RLR 113-124

"Village Greens and the Fight Against Development" (2007) 18 KLJ 145-157

Citation:
(2007) 18 KLJ 145-157

"Proprietary Claims and Human Rights – a "Reservoir of Entitlement"?" [2006] CLJ 696-719

Citation:
[2006] CLJ 696-719

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:

"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

"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

"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

"A Tale of Three Promises: Setting the Scene" (with Stephen Watterson), New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions, 2018), pp. 277-280

"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

"Remedies for Vindicating Ownership Rights in Real Property" in Graham Virgo and Sarah Worthington (ed(s)), Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies, 2017), pp. 173-202

"Knowing Receipt and Registered Land" (with M Conaglen) in C Mitchell (ed(s)), Constructive and Resulting Trusts (2010), 2010), pp. 159-182

Publisher:
Pages:
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)

"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

"Conversion of Contractual Rights" (with S Bright), Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume VI (2011), 2011), pp. 333-359

Publisher:
Pages:
333-359
Co-Author/s:
S Bright

"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

Pages:
249-299
Co-Author/s:
D Hoffman

"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

Publisher:
Pages:
169-196
Co-Author/s:
E Cooke

Book Reviews

Book review of Edelman and Degeling (eds), Unjust Enrichment in Commercial Law (2009) 125 LQR 699

Book review of A Clarke and P Kohler, Property Law: Commentary and Materials [2007] CLJ 233

Book review of E Burn and J Cartwright (eds), Cheshire and Burn’s Law of Real Property [2007] 71 Conv 391

Book review of A Burrows and Lord Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (2007) 18 KLJ 371

Book review of H Dagan, Ethics and the Law of Restitution [2006] CLJ 456

Case Notes

" ‘Stack v Dowden revisited: Co-ownership, Survivorship, and presumptions’ " [2024] CLJ 222

"Avoiding Restitution of Tax" [2012] CLJ 488

Co-Author/s:
Graham Virgo

"Possession proceedings and human rights - the final word?" [2011] CLJ 9

"Unlawful tax: tantalizing glimpses of restitution" [2010] CLJ 232

"Cobbling together claims where a contract fails to materialise" [2009] CLJ 37

"Easements, Servitudes and the Right to Park" [2008] CLJ 20

"Too many cooks: three parties, contracts and unjust enrichment" [2008] CLJ 469

"Premature tax payments and unjust enrichment" [2007] CLJ 24

"Dishonesty in the context of assistance – again" [2006] CLJ 18

Co-Author/s:
Matthew Conaglen

"Rabbits Beware: residents gain rights to drive over common land" [2005] CLJ 39