Publications by Professor Martin Dixon

Full list of publications by Professor Martin Dixon.

  • Martin Dixon, Robert McCorquodale, Sarah Williams, Robert McCorquodale, Sarah Williams, Cases and Materials on International Law, Oxford University Press, 2024
  • Martin Dixon, Janel Bignell KC, Nicholas Hopkins, Megarry & Wade The Law of Real Property, 2024
  • Martin Dixon, Modern Land Law, Routledge, 2023
  • Martin Dixon, Sarah Wheeler, Stephen R Coveney, Patrick Timothy, Sarah Wheeler, Stephen R Coveney, Patrick Timothy, Ruoff & Roper: The Law of Registered Conveyancing, Sweet and Maxwell, 2019
  • Martin Dixon, Textbook on International Law (2013), Oxford University Press, 2013
  • Martin Dixon, Gerwyn Griffiths, Emma Lees, Gerwyn Griffiths, Emma Lees, Q&A Land Law 2013-14, Routledge, 2012
  • Martin Dixon, Modern Studies in Property Law, Hart Publishing, 2009
  • Martin Dixon, G Griffiths, G Griffiths, Contemporary Perspectives on Property, Equity and Trusts, Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Painting Proprietary Estoppel’, in Essays in Honour of Mark Thompson, forthcoming
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Real Property Rights in England and Wales: No Need for Law and Equity’, in Research Handbook on Property. Law and Theory (eds C Bevan), 2024
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Law of Co-ownership: Pretence, Prevarication and Pusillanimity’, in Politics, Policy and Private Law (eds Jodi Gardner (Anthology Editor) , Amy Goymour (Anthology Editor) , Janet O'Sullivan (Anthology Editor) , Sarah Worthington (Anthology Editor)), Bloomsbury, 2023
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Title Guarantee or Title Indefeasibility?’, in New Horizons for Torrens: Land Registration and Title Security in the Digital Age, Routledge, 2020
  • Martin Dixon, Emma Lees, ‘Land Registration in England & Wales: problems, solutions and missed opportunities’, in New Horizons for Torrens: Land Registration and Title Security in the Digital Age, 2019
  • Martin Dixon, Brian Sloan, ‘Williams v Hensman (1861) and the Law of Severance: Janus Personified’, in Landmark Cases in Succession Law, Bloomsbury, 2019
  • Martin Dixon, Nigel Gravells, Nigel Gravells, ‘Stitching Together Modern Estoppel’, in Landmark Cases in Land Law, Hart Publishing, 2013
  • Martin Dixon, Anthony Speaight QC, Anthony Speaight QC, ‘English Land Law’, in Architect's Legal Handbook, 2009
  • Martin Dixon, Gerwyn Griffiths, Gerwyn Griffiths, ‘Protecting Third Party Interests Under The Land Registration Act 2002 - To Worry Or Not To Worry: That Is The Question’, in Contemporary Perspectives on Property, Equity and Trusts Law, Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Martin Dixon, E Cooke, E Cooke, ‘Equitable Co-ownership: Proprietary Rights in Name Only?’, in Modern Studies in Property Law Vol. 4, 2007
  • Martin Dixon, E Cooke, E Cooke, ‘Proprietary Estoppel and Formalities in Land Law and the Land Registration Act 2002’, in Modern Studies in Property Law Vol. 3, Hart Publishing, 2003
  • Martin Dixon, E Cooke, E Cooke, ‘Consenting away proprietary rights’, in Modern Studies in Property Law Vol. 2, Hart Publishing, 2003
  • Martin Dixon, Louise Tee, Louise Tee, ‘Proprietary and Non-Proprietary Rights in Modern Land Law’, in Land Law: Issues, Debates, Policy, 2002
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Here we go again manipulating constructive trusts’, [2024] Conv 329, 2025
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Residential Leasehold Wash Up’, [2024] Conv 219
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Plus ca change: co-ownership and constructive trusts’, [2024] Conv 95
  • Martin Dixon, ‘A dispensation gap’, [2024] Conv 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘HM Land Registry: How did it come to this?’, [2023] Con 213
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Real property, licences and the slippery idea of possession’, (2023) 139 LQR 552
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Landlord and Tenant Law in Context’, [2023] Conv 307
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Mistakes about Mistakes’, [2023] Conv 125
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Are we there yet: Leasehold reform’, [2023] Conv 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Reading Guest and the Law of Proprietary Estoppel’, [2022] Conv 337
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Restrictions and Registered Title: When, Why and What?’, [2022] Conv 253
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Non-problems, Future Problems and Fairy Dust’, [2022] Conv 119
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Painting Proprietary Estoppel: Howard Hodgkin, Titian or Jackson Pollock?’, [2022] Conv. 30
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Mistakes, mispleading and overreaching: understanding title registration and correcting the register’, Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law Volume 14 Issue 1, 2022
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Dishonest Strangers’, [2019] Conv 195
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Proprietary Estoppel: The Law of Farms and Families’, [2019] Conv 89
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Rectifying the register under the LRA 2002: the Malory 2 non-problem’, [2016] Conv. 382
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Law Commission and law reform (editorial)’, [2016] Conv. 255-256
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Developments in estoppel and trusts of land (Editorial)’, [2015] Conv. 469-473
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Legal education: where next? (Editorial)’, [2015] Conv. 2015 369-372
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Boland requiem (Editorial)’, [2015] Conv. 285-90
  • Martin Dixon, ‘A reformist menu (Editorial)’, [2015] Conv. 187
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Rectification and priority: further skirmishes in the land registration war’, [2015] L.Q.R. 207
  • Martin Dixon, ‘A tangled web of priority’, [2015] Conv. 97
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Green light for development? (Editorial)’, [2015] Conv 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Why? (Editorial) (Scott v Southern Pacific Mortgages)’, [2014] Conv 461
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Criminal squatting and adverse possession: the best solution?’, [2014] J.H.L. 2014, 17(5), 94
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Cemeteries and coffee shops: common intention, land registration and priority (Editorial)’, [2014] Conv. 279-284
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Land Registration and Time Travel: reforming the land registry’, [2014] 78 Conv. 189
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Sound of Silence: Easements to make a noise’, [2014] 78 Conv. 79
  • Martin Dixon, ‘A Doctrinal Approach to Property Law: Who Cares and Why?’, (2014) 3 Property Law Review 160
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Something for the New Year: land law reform’, [2014] 78 Conv. 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The past, the present and the future of land registration’, [2013] 77 Conv. 463
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Title by registration or conquest: interpreting the Land Registration Act 2002 in England and Wales’, I.J.L.B.E. 2013, 5(3), 194-206
  • Martin Dixon, ‘And Here is the News: Legal Training’, [2013] 77 Conv. 255
  • Martin Dixon, ‘A Not So Conclusive Title Register?’, [2013] 129 LQR 320
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Reaching up for the box in the attic: mortgages and overreaching’, [2013] 77 Conv. 165
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Shining a Light on Easements’, [2013] 77 Conv. 85
  • Martin Dixon, ‘To Write or Not to Write: Formalities and Land Law’, [2013] 77 Conv. 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Knowing receipt, constructive trusts and registered title’, [2012] 76 Conv. 439
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Adverse possession and criminal liability’, [2012] 76 Conv. 185
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Jones v Kernott: The still not ended, never-ending story’, [2012] 76 Conv. 83
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Easements and the Law Commission’, [2012] 76 Conv. 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘To sell or not to sell: that is the question: the irony of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996’, (2011) 70 CLJ 579.
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Village Greens and Squatting: A summer of Consultation’, [2011] 75 Conv. 347
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Easements and contradictions’, [2011] 75 Conv. 167.
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Beneficial Interests After Stack v Dowden & Jones v Kernott’, [2011] 75 Conv. 87
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Future of the Land Registry’, [2011] 75 Conv. 1.
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Confining and defining proprietary estoppel: the role of unconscionability’, (2010) 30 Legal Studies 408
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Possession: A concept for all seasons’, [2010] 74 Conv 423
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Taking Stock’, [2010] 74 Conv. 343
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Tolerated Trespassers and Secure Tenancies’, [2010] 74 Conv. 273
  • Martin Dixon, ‘HM Adjudicator to the Land Registry and Questions of Rectification’, [2010] 74 Conv. 207
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Reforming Mortgages’, [2010] 74 Conv. 111
  • Martin Dixon, ‘HSBC v Dyche’, [2010] 74 Conv. 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Priorities under the Land Registration Act 2002’, (2009) 125 L.Q.R. 401
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Easements: where next and why?’, [2009] 73 Conv. 437
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The House of Lords-A Retrospective’, [2009] 73 Conv. 365
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Mortgagees' powers and duties: Horsham Properties & Thompson v Foy’, [2009] Conv. 283
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Adverse possession and Registered land’, [2009] Conv. 169
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The reach of estoppel: a matter of debate’, [2009] 73 Conv. 85
  • Martin Dixon, ‘A Matter of Clarity: Tolerated Trespassers’, [2009] 73 Conv. 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Mortgage Arrears Protocol’, [2008] 72 Conv. 473
  • Martin Dixon, ‘New rules at the Land registry’, [2008] 72 Conv. 355
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Law Commission's Working Paper on Easements’, [2008] 72 Conv. 269
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Resulting and Constructive Trusts of Land’, [2005] Conv. 79.
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Land Registration Act 2002: A Risk Assessment’, [2003] Conv. 136
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Has Flegg been overruled? Overreaching and the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996’, [2000] Conv. 267.
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Combating the mortgagee's right to possession: new hope for the mortgagor in chains’, (1998) 18 Legal Studies 279.
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Co-ownership trusts in the UK: the Denning legacy’, [1988] 3 Denning Law Journal 27
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Dispositions, Constructive Trusts and Co-ownership’, (2023) 82 CLJ 212
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Mortgages, co-owners and priority: some basics’, [2016] Conv. 81-83
  • Martin Dixon, ‘At the sharper end - Adjudicator to the Registry’, [2011] 75 Conv. 335
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Proprietary estoppel: a return to principle?’, [2009] Conv 260
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Mortgage duties and commercial property transactions’, [2006] 70 Conv 278, 2008
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Derbyshire CC v Fallon’, [2008] 72 Conv. 238
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Human Rights and Adverse Possession: The final nail’, [2008] 72 Conv. 160
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Estoppel and Testamentary Freedom’, [2008] 72 Conv. 65.
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Leasehold covenants and equitable set-off’, [2006] 70 Conv 460
  • Martin Dixon, ‘A failure of statutory purpose or a failure of professional advice?’, [2006] 70 Conv 79
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Adverse possession in three jurisdictions’, [2006] 70 Conv 179
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Proprietary rights and rectifying the effect of non-registration’, [2005] 69 Conv. 447
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Adverse possession and human rights’, [2005] 69 Conv. 345
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Trusts of land, bankruptcy and human rights’, [2005] 69 Conv. 161
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Invalid contracts, estoppel and constructive trusts’, [2005] 69 Conv 247
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Estoppel Unconscionability and Formalities in Land Law: Gillett v Holt’, [2000] 59 CLJ 453
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The non-proprietary lease: the rise of the feudal phoenix’, [2000] 59 CLJ 25
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Gabcikovo Case’, [1998] 57 CLJ 1
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Thatcher v Douglas’, [1995] 6 RWLR
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Special Tenderness of Equity’, (1994) 53 CLJ 21
  • Martin Dixon, ‘The Case Concerning Elettronica Sicula’, 41 ICLQ 701 (1992).
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Adverse Possession—Compromises and Estoppel’, (1992) 51 CLJ 420
  • Martin Dixon, Dr Callistus Mahama, Dr Callistus Mahama, ‘Acquisition and Affordability of Land for Housing in Urban Ghana: A Study in the Formal Land Market Dynamics’, 2006
  • Martin Dixon, ‘Compatibility of certain property laws of the Republic of Moldova with the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950 and Protocols thereto.’, 2003