Katy Barnett

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New: 'Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law' edited by @drkatybarnett.bsky.social, William Day, Jonathan Morgan and Andrew Robertson

Explores the nature and justification of mandatory and default rules ➡️ https://bit.ly/4kJXvzN

#ContractLaw #CommercialLaw

My friend managed to get genuine bits of foyer - Canberra York gray granite and San Fransisco green granite - from the case of Tabcorp Holdings Ltd v Bowen Investments Pty Ltd [2009] HCA 8, (2009) 236 CLR 272. No wonder Mrs Bergamin was so shocked and dismayed.

Don't get me wrong. I still love my job. Despite all...

New📚Private Law Remedies
@drkatybarnett.bsky.social, University of Melbourne
Sirko Harder, University of Sussex

Available 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
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#Remedies #Damages #CommonLaw #PrivateLaw #CommercialLaw #Compensation

Hurrah! Hard copy of Private Law Remedies received!

Private Law Remedies ‘This book is one of the few to consider the important area of private law remedies as a coherent whole. Within its covers, the details of the law are expounded and there is a wealth of useful insight...

Sirko Harder and I have a new book, “Private Law Remedies” (published today by Edward Elgar Publishing) this time focusing on English law.

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Really happy to get my copy of this excellent collection of essays, to which I contributed a chapter called ‘The Policy Behind Contract Damages: Beyond Voluntary Assumption of a Risk or Gap Filling’. Thanks to the excellent editors. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/politics-...

Awesome trip to Boston to present at Harvard for Obligations XI on “How the Institutional Revolution Shaped Common Law Remedies for Breach of Contract”. Great to see old friends and meet new ones. Now home safely.

Asia-Pacific Trusts Law, Volume 3 This collection explores the boundaries of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region.It is uncontroversial to state that the region's jurisdictions are diverse, ref…

Extremely proud of the book chapter I co-authored with @markbennettnz on Asset Protection Trusts in the Cook Islands, in which we undertook empirical research on the topic. It’s a chapter in this newly released book, which I commend to you. www.bloomsbury.com/au/asiapacif...

For those of you who are interested in negotiating damages and the like, I was on Chris Patterson’s Law Down Under podcast: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-sg6qq-...

A post by me on the recent English Court of Appeal decision in King Crude.

Two white parrots eat some seeds

I imagine, with little corellas, that I can see what some dinosaurs might have looked like. Weird goggle eyed little dinos.

I just came up with an excellent collective noun: “She discovered she had an embarrassment of adoring swains.” (Not speaking about myself personally, I should hasten to add…)

Vale Professor Harold Luntz AO 25 February 1937 – 29 January 2025

An obituary for Professor Harold Luntz AO

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Back at you @proftimstephens.bsky.social! Delighted to be in the same issue as well.

Very pleased to be published in the latest issue of the Contract and Commercial Law Review

#contractlaw #internationallaw

Character sketches for ‘The Hidden People’ www.whatkatydid.net/p/the-hidden...

If I wrote a sitcom of my life, no one would believe it. In my fiction, I wrote a dirge, sung by a eunuch in a totally made up funeral rite. Someone emailed my co-collaborator and I to say that they really loved the dirge and actually used it in a real funeral.

I have written a case and comment on the recent decision of the English Court of Appeal, King Crude Carriers v Ridgebury November, in (2025) 2 CCLR 164. Abstract explains the context.

Here is my casenote on Cessnock City Council v 123 259 932 Pty Ltd [2024] HCA 17, on wasted expenditure and reliance damages, in the Cambridge Law Journal - open access.

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A sulphur crested cockatoo holding a nut.

A sulphur crested cockatoo holding a nut.

I love the way sulphur crested cockatoos are so dexterous with their claws.

In the morning light, fine threads glisten.
Tiny spiders have joined the cumquat tree with the rosemary.
Back and forth, the garden chairs are knit with tens of shining strands.
One tiny spider dared to leap from the washing line to the sage bush.
A leap of faith, weaving the world together.

So awful to hear of this. I hope as many people, animals and plants are as okay as possible.

Congratulations!

Good luck! That’s awesome.

Oh SHOOT, no, I am so sorry to hear this. (I don’t use social media as much as I did). I am so glad she is okay. I am fond of her - she reminds me of my first dog.

Thank you so much. Please do write more, and tell me if you do! I mean to write more on this specific topic myself; it is simply a matter of getting the time to finish what I’ve written so far.

I also grew up with the book and then the radio adaptation, which I absolutely loved too. The films are fun - but not like the books. Nothing can be like the books.

View above my house was freaky.

Presented at National University of Singapore on bailment - bonus pictures of chicken crossing road, and temple across the road from our hotel.