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Mr Mark Lunney

Mark Lunney

Assoc.Prof, Faculty of The Professions, School of Law

Qualifications

LLB (Hons), BA (Qld), LLM (Cantab), Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Queensland and England & Wales

Contact

Email: mlunney@une.edu.au
Room: W038 36
Phone: 02 6773 2713 (or +61 2 6773 2713 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3602

Associate Professor Mark Lunney joined the School of Law in 2003. He obtained his undergraduate degrees from the University of Queensland, before moving to the UK to undertake postgraduate research. He previously taught at the School of Law, King‘s College London. He is co-author of Tort Law: Text & Materials (3rd ed, 2008) (with KA Oliphant), The Law of Torts in Australia (4th ed, 2007) (with Francis Trindade and Peter Cane) and is a contributor to Butterworths Common Law Series The Law of Tort (2nd ed, 2007). His work has been cited by the High Court of Australia, the New South Wales Court of Appeal, and the Law Commission of England and Wales.

The teaching and research interests of Associate Professor Lunney are the Torts, the History of Common Law English and Legal Profession, and the relationship between private law and human rights. He has written extensively in these areas.

Publications

Books

  • Mark Lunney & Ken Oliphant, Tort: Text & Materials (2000) ISBN 0-19-876401-4.
  • Mark Lunney & Ken Oliphant, Tort: Text & Materials (2nd ed, 2003) ISBN 0-19-926055-9.
  • Francis Trindade, Peter Cane and Mark Lunney, The Law of Torts in Australia (4th ed, 2007) ISBN 0-19-551620-6
  • Mark Lunney & Ken Oliphant, Tort: Text & Materials (3rd ed, 2008) ISBN 978-0-19-921136-4.

Research Report

  • Mark Lunney (80%) & Robert Burrell, A farmer’s choice? Legal liability of farmers growing crops (2006) ISBN 0-9757221-6-6.

Book Chapters

  • Mark Lunney, “Capacity to Commit a Tort and to Sue” in A Grubb (ed) The Law of Tort (2002) 31-64 ISBN 0-406-89672-0.
  • Mark Lunney, “Trespass to Land” in A Grubb (ed) The Law of Tort (2002) 397-432 ISBN 0-406-89672-0.
  • Mark Lunney, “Wrongful Interference with Goods” in A Grubb (ed) The Law of Tort (2002) 433-502 ISBN 0-406-89672-0.
  • Mark Lunney & Paul Mitchell, “Intentional Interference with the Person” in A Grubb (ed) The Law of Tort (2002) 349-396 ISBN 0-406-89672-0.
  • Mark Lunney, “Capacity to Commit a Tort and to Sue”, in K Oliphant (ed) The Law of Tort (2nd ed, 2007) 39-85 ISBN 978 1 4057 1240 8.
  • Mark Lunney, “Trespass to Land” in in K Oliphant (ed) The Law of Tort (2nd ed, 2007) 485-534 ISBN 978 1 4057 1240 8.
  • Mark Lunney, “Wrongful Interference with Goods” in K Oliphant (ed) The Law of Tort (2nd ed, 2007) 535-627 ISBN 978 1 4057 1240 8.
  • Mark Lunney & Paul Mitchell, “Intentional Interference with the Person” in K Oliphant (ed) The Law of Tort (2nd ed, 2007) 437-484 ISBN 978 1 4057 1240 8.

Periodical Contributions (Articles/Shorter Notes)

  • Mark Lunney, “Negligence and the Recovery of Pure Economic Loss — the Re-Opening of Pandora’s Box?” (1989) 19 Queensland Law Society Journal 59-70.
  • Mark Lunney, “Towards a Unified Estoppel — The Long and Winding Road” [1992] The Conveyancer 239-251.
  • Mark Lunney, “A Common Law of Illegality in Equity” (1992) 6 Trust Law International 110-112.
  • Mark Lunney, “Hillsborough — The One that Got Away” (1992) 3 King’s College Law Journal 170-172.
  • Mark Lunney, “Never Trust a Man…” (1993) 56 Modern Law Review 87-91.
  • Mark Lunney, “More about a common law of Illegality in Equity” (1993) 7 Trust Law International 114-116.
  • Mark Lunney, “Trespass and Case — A New Lease of Life?” (1993) 4 King’s College Law Journal 79-81.
  • Mark Lunney, “Jorden v Money — A Time for Reappraisal?” (1994) 68 Australian Law Journal 559-575.
  • Mark Lunney, “Once (or twice) more to the Breach, Dear Friends?” (1994) 5 King’s College Law Journal 121-124.
  • Mark Lunney, “Rewriting Rylands v Fletcher and non delegable duties in Australia” (1994) 5 King’s College Law Journal 133-136.
  • Mark Lunney, “What Price a Chance?” (1995) 15 Legal Studies 1-13.
  • Mark Lunney, “Insurance and the Liability of the Legal Profession — A Case Study” (1995) 16 Journal of Legal History 94-106.
  • Mark Lunney and Paul Matthews, “A Tortfeasor’s Lot is not a Happy One?” (1995) 58 Modern Law Review 395-403.
  • Mark Lunney, “Common Sense and Market Losses”, (1995) 6 King’s College Law Journal 99-101.
  • Mark Lunney, “The Solicitor and the Bookmaker — the Foundation of the Solicitors’ Compensation Fund” (1996) 26 Queensland Law Society Journal 35-50.
  • Mark Lunney, “The Law Society and the Defalcation Scandals of 1900” (1996) 17 Journal of Legal History 244-269.
  • Mark Lunney, “Chances of Recovery in Tort” (1996) 7 King’s College Law Journal 101-104.
  • Mark Lunney, “Letter from America: Tort Reform Illinois Style” (1997) 8 King’s College Law Journal 43-68.
  • Mark Lunney, “A good idea gone bad, or just a bad idea? — the establishment of the Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund” (1997) 27 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 317-347.
  • Mark Lunney, “ ‘And the Lord Knows where that might lead’ — the Law Society, the fraudulent solicitor and the Solicitors Act 1941” (1997) 4 International Journal of the Legal Profession 235-266.
  • Mark Lunney, “Tortfeasor Defendants and Gratuitous Care” (1997) 8 King’s College Law Journal 115-117.
  • Mark Lunney, “A Golfer is Not a Gentleman?” (1998) 6 Sport and the Law Journal 4-18.
  • Mark Lunney, “In Support of the Chancellor’s Foot” (1998) 9 King’s College Law Journal 116-122.
  • Mark Lunney, “Don’t Play with Matches” (1998) 114 Law Quarterly Review 377-379.
  • Mark Lunney, “Look before You Leap” [1998] Cambridge Law Journal 441- 444.
  • Mark Lunney, “A Tort Lawyer’s View of Osman v United Kingdom” (1999) 10 King’s College Law Journal 238-247.
  • Mark Lunney, “Osman in Action — Article 6 and the Commission Reports in Z v United Kingdom and TP & KM v United Kingdom” (2000) 11 King’s College Law Journal 119-126.
  • Mark Lunney, “Never Say Never Again” (2001) 12 King’s College Law Journal 244-251.
  • Mark Lunney, “Practical Joking and its Penalty: Wilkinson v Downton in Context” (2002) 10 Tort Law Review 168-187.
  • Mark Lunney, “The Price of Responsible Parenting” (2002) 13 King’s College Law Journal 219-221.
  • Mark Lunney, “Six and Out?: Bolton v Stone after 50 years” (2003) 24 Journal of Legal History 1-22.
  • Mark Lunney, “Occupiers and Obvious Risks” (2003) 11 Tort Law Review 140-145.
  • Mark Lunney, “Damage and Cross-Pollination by a Deliberately Released Genetically Modified Organism?”, University of New England Centre for Agriculture and Law, Ag Law Papers Series 1, 2004.
  • Mark Lunney, “A Right Old Mess” (2004) 1 University of New England Law Journal 145-155.
  • Mark Lunney and Julia Werren, “Cole v South Tweed Heads Rugby League Club Limited” (2004) 1 University of New England Law Journal 239-247.
  • Mark Lunney, “Personal Responsibility and the New Volenti” (2005) 13 Tort Law Review 76-91.
  • Mark Lunney, “Causation, Science, and Sir Owen Dixon” (2005) 9 Australian Journal of Legal History 205-226.
  • Mark Lunney, “Stress at Work: To Tell or Not to Tell?” (2005) 2 University of New England Law Journal 75-77.
  • Mark Lunney, “Simplicity is a Virtue? — Negligent Misstatement and Physical Injury in the House of Lords” (2006) 14 Tort Law Review 129-132.
  • Mark Lunney, “Principles-Based Reform of the Law of Tort: Not as Easy As It Sounds?” (2006) 3 University of New England Law Journal 211-219.

Entries in Scholarly Reference Works

  • Mark Lunney, Contributing Editor, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century British Politics (2002) (6 entries).
  • Mark Lunney, Contributing Editor, The New Dictionary of National Biography, (2004) (3 entries).
  • Mark Lunney, Contributing Editor, Oxford Companion to Law (in press) (3 entries).

Seminar/Conference Presentations

  • “Autonomy and Medical Law”, paper presented (with Natasha Cica) to residents of London Goodenough Trust, 1992.
  • “Disasters and the Law of Negligence”, paper presented to residents of London Goodenough Trust, 1993.
  • “The Right to Silence”, paper presented to the residents of London Goodenough Trust, 1994.
  • “A Victorian Scandal — this time at the Law Society”, lecture delivered to Middle Temple Historical Society, Middle Temple Hall, February 1996.
  • “The Law Commission’s Consultation Paper — Damages for Psychiatric Injury”
  • Paper delivered to Royal Society of Medicine’s Psychiatric Section Conference, May 1996.
  • “The passing of the Solicitors Act 1941”, paper presented to the London Legal History Seminar Series, May 1997.
  • Panel Member, “The Future of Legal History — A Round-Table Discussion”, Second Theory in Legal Education Colloquium, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, January 1998.
  • “Bolton and Stone after 50 years”, paper presented to the London Legal History Seminar Series, May 2001.
  • Panel Member, “The Decisions of the ECHR in Z v UK; TP & KM v UK”, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, June 2001.
  • “Human Rights and Private Law: An Unhappy Combination?”, University of New England School of Law Kirby Seminar, September 2003.
  • “Itchy Underpants and Judicial Skepticism”, Paper presented to the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Law ands History Society, St. George’s College, University of Western Australia, July 2004.
  • “Tort Issues in the Planting of GM Crops’, Seminar Paper presented at the seminar series of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property and Agriculture, Australian National University, August 2004.
  • “Historical Methodology and the Common Law of Tort”, University of New England Kirby Seminar, September 2004.
  • “Practical Jokes, Cricket, and Itchy Underpants — the Use and Abuse of Law as Social History”, Seminar presented to the School of Classics, History and Religion, University of New England, October 2004.
  • “Causation, Science, and Sir Owen Dixon”, paper presented to the London Legal History Seminar, January 2005.
  • “Tony Martin Rules OK! — Tort Reform in New South Wales”, public lecture delivered at University of East Anglia, Norwich, February 2005, as part of the Norwich Law School’s Public Lecture Series for 2005.
  • “Federation and Fare Dodging”, paper presented at the 18th British Legal History Conference, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 2-5 July 2007.
  • “Federation Follies: Press Reaction to Balmain New Ferry Company v Robertson”, paper presented at 26th Annual Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference, School of Law, University of New England, September 21-23 2007.

Book Reviews

  • Book Review of Ball & Cooper, “Of Power and Right” (1993) 14 Journal of Legal History 159-160.
  • Book Review of Brand, “The Origins of the English Legal Profession” [1993] Cambridge Law Journal 531-533.
  • Book Revierw of Mullaney & Handford, “Tort Liability for Psychiatric Injury” (1993) 1 Medical Law Review 408-412.
  • Book Review of Horwitz, “The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960” (1994) 15 Journal of Legal History 193-196.
  • Book Review of Horwitz, “Chancery Equity Records and Proceedings” (1996) 10 Tolley’s Trust Law International 127-8.
  • Book Review of Sugarman (ed), “Law in History” (1997) 18 Journal of Legal History 56-61.
  • Book Review of Newman (ed), “The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law” (1998) 142 Solicitors’ Journal 724-5.
  • Book Review of Mullaney (ed), “Torts in the Nineties” (1998) 9 King’s College Law Journal 157-160.
  • Book Review of Gilkes (ed), “The Bawdy Court of Banbury: The Act Book of the Peculiar Court of Banbury 1625-1638” (1999) 5 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 290-2
  • Book Review of Stretton, “Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England” (1999) 10 King’s College Law Journal 136-138.
  • Book Review of Spence, “Protecting Reliance” (2000) 14 Tolley’s Trust Law International 62-64.
  • Book Review of Smith, “Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Jurisprudence 1800-1957” (2000) 21 Journal of Legal History 139-141.
  • Book Review of Kneebone, “Tort Liability of Public Authorities” (2000) 22 Adelaide Law Review 109-115.
  • Book Review of Ibbetson, “A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations” (2002) 10 Tort Law Review 71-75.
  • Book Review of Pedersen, “Marriage Disputes in Medieval England” (2002) 6 Ecclesiastical Law Review 406-408.
  • Book Review of Taggart, “Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England” (2004) 15 King’s College Law Journal 212-216.
  • Book Review of Bennett, “Lives of the Australian Chief Justices” (Sir Francis Forbes (2001); Sir James Dowling (2001); Sir William a’Beckett (2001); Sir Charles Cooper (2002); Sir Archibald Burt (2002); Sir John Pedder (2003); Sir James Cockle (2003)) (2005) 26 Journal of Legal History 220-224.
  • Book Review of Bennett, “Lives of the Australian Chief Justices” (Sir Henry Wrenfordsley (2004), Sir William Stawell (2004)), (2006) 8 Journal of Australian Colonial History 216-219.
  • Book Review of Mitchell, “The Making of the Modern Law of Defamation” (2006) 17 King’s College Law Journal 165-169.
  • Book Review of Bennett “Lives of the Australian Chief Justices” (Sir James Martin (2005)), Callaghan’s Diary (2005), and Colonial Law Lords (2006)), (2006) 28 Australian Bar Review 110-116.

Other Output

  • Letter to the Editor, Australian Law Journal, 66, 1992, pp 756-7.
  • “Legal Network Television” (1993), videotaped discussion of leading contemporary tort cases for distribution to solicitors.
  • Letter to the Editor, Australian Law Journal, 70, 1996, pp 201.
  • Evidence given to House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee (UK), Compensation Culture, Third Report of Session 2005-2006, Volume 2, Ev 194-197.