gjv1000@cam.ac.uk
College Contact Details
Room: Master's Lodge
Tel: (01223) 334843
Professor of English Private Law; Chair of the LLM Examiners
M.A., B.C.L. (Oxon), KC (Hon)
Interests
Criminal Law. Restitution. Law of Contract. Equity and trusts.
Research centres and interest groups
CV / Biography
Master of Downing College; member of XXIV Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn: Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.
Publications
Books
The Principles of the Law of Restitution, 2024) 4th Edition
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ISBN 13:
9780198885320
Published Apr 2024
The Principles of Equity & Trusts (OUP, 2023) 5th Edition
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ISBN 13:
9780192857170
Published May 2023
Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law Theory and Doctrine (with J J Child, A P Simester, J R Spencer, F Stark), 2022) 8th Edition
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ISBN 13:
9781509964277
Published Aug 2022
What about Law? Studying Law at University (with Catherine Barnard and Janet O'Sullivan), 2021) 3rd Edition
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184946085X
ISBN 13:
9781849460859
Published Mar 2021
Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies (with Professor Andrew Tettenborn, Professor Malcolm Clarke & Professor Neil Andrews) (Sweet & Maxwell, 2020) 3rd Edition
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ISBN 13:
9780414057593
Published Apr 2020
Equity and Trusts: Text, Cases and Materials (with Paul S Davies) (Oxford University Press, 2019) 3rd Edition
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ISBN 13:
978-0-19-966148-0
Published May 2019
The Principles of the Law of Restitution (Oxford University Press, 2015) 3rd Edition
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9780198726388
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ISBN 13:
978-0-19-872638-8
Published Aug 2015
Buckley on the Companies Act (with Arden, Prentice and Richards) (Lexis Nexis, 2000) 15th Edition
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9780406141514
Published Jan 2000
Restitution: Past, Present and Future : Essays in Honour of Gareth Jones (with William Cornish, Richard Nolan and Janet O'Sullivan (eds)) (eds) (Hart, 1998)
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ISBN:
1901362426
ISBN 13:
9781901362428
Published Jul 1998
Articles
"Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 - Enough is enough" Archbold Review, Issue 3, 2013
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Archbold Review, Issue 3, 2013
Published: Apr 2013
"Joint enterprise liability is dead: long live accessorial liability" [2012] Crim LR 850
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[2012] Crim LR 850
Published: Nov 2012
""The Essence of the ‘Rule in Re Hastings-Bass’" [2010] 17 Journal of International Trust and Corporate Planning 162-172
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[2010] 17 Journal of International Trust and Corporate Planning 162-172
Published: Oct 2010
"Restitution and Mistake: Personal and Proprietary Claims: Seeking an Equilibrium" (2009) 16 Journal of International Trust and Corporate Planning
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(2009) 16 Journal of International Trust and Corporate Planning
Published: Mar 2010
"Crime and Restitution Revisited" [2009] RLR 29
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[2009] RLR 29
Published: Sep 2009
"Inadequacy of Compensatory Damages" [2009] RLR 112-121
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[2009] RLR 112-121
Published: Mar 2009
Book Chapters
"Illegality and Unjust Enrichment" in S Green and A Bogg (ed(s)), Illegality After Patel v Mirza, 2024)
"Gain-based Remedies", Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies, 2024)
"Abuse of TRust" in RC Nolan, M Yip, TH Wu (ed(s)), Trusts and Private Wealth Management Developments and Directions, 2024)
"Restitution" (with Beale), Chitty on Contracts (Sweet and Maxwell, 2023)
"A taxonomy of defences in restitution", Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution, 2020)
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Published Apr 2020
"Unjust Enrichment" in W Day and S Worthington (ed(s)), Challenging Private Law, 2020)
"The Illegality Revolution" in S Worthington, A Robertson and G Virgo (ed(s)), Revolution and Evolution in Private Law, 2018)
"The Defence of Illegality in Unjust Enrichment" in A Dyson, J Goudkamp and F Wilmot-Smith (ed(s)), Defences in Unjust Enrichment, 2016)
"'We Do This in the Criminal Law and That in the Law of Tort': A New Fusion Debate" (with Stephen GA Pitel, Jason W Neyers and Erika Chamberlain), Tort Law: Challenging Orthodoxy (Hart Publishing, 2013)
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ISBN 13:
9781849464710
Published Oct 2013
"Re Hallett's Estate (1879-80)" (with Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell), Landmark Cases in Equity (Hart Publishing, 2012), pp. 357-392
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357-392
ISBN 13:
978-1-84946-154-2
Published Aug 2012
"The Law of Unjust Enrichment in the House of Lords: Judging the Judges" (with J Lee), From House of Lords to Supreme Court: Judges, Jurists and the Process of Judging (Hart Publishing, 2011), pp. 169-200
"Demolishing the Pyramid - the Presence of Basis and Risk-Taking in the Law of Unjust Enrichment" (with Robertson and Wu), The Goals of Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2009), pp. 477-508
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477-508
ISBN 13:
978-1841139098
Published Mar 2009
"The Law of Taxation and Unjust Enrichment" (with Harris and Oliver), Comparative Perspectives on Revenue Law: Essays in Honour of John Tiley (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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ISBN 13:
978-0521887779
Published Mar 2008
"Restitutionary Remedies for Wrongs: Causation and Remoteness" (with C Rickett), Justifying Private Law Remedies (Hart Publishing, 2008)
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ISBN 13:
978-1841138145
Published Mar 2008
"Causation and Remoteness within the Law of Unjust Enrichment" (with Degeling and Edelman), Unjust Enrichment in Commercial Law (Thomson, 2008), pp. 147-176
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147-176
ISBN 13:
9780455225043
Published Mar 2008
"‘Vindicating Vindication: Foskett v McKeown Reviewed’" (with Hudson and Dignam), The Idea of Property and Obligations in Law, 2004), pp. 203-222
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203-222
Published Oct 2004
Case Notes
Making sense of section 46 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 Archbold Review, Issue 7, 2013
Published: Aug 2013
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