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Supreme Court of New South Wales
Justice Mark Leeming
The Honourable Justice Mark Leeming was sworn-in as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and as a Judge of Appeal on 3 June 2013. His Honour graduated from Sydney University with first class honours in law in 1992. He was called to the Bar in 1995 and took up residence at 8th Selborne. His Honour took silk in 2006 and also has a PhD in pure mathematics.
Appointments
Legal, cultural or benevolent organisations
| Challis Lecturer in Equity, University of Sydney |
| Board Member, State Records Authority of NSW |
| Advisory Committee, Francis Forbes Society |
| Director, The Federation Press Pty Ltd |
| Editorial Board member: Australian Bar Review, Journal of Equity, Contract and Commercial Law Review |
| Member of Panel of Referees, Journal of the Malaysian Judiciary |
| Honorary Bencher, Lincoln’s Inn |
Recent conferences
29 February |
Roundtable (Prof Mitchell) re: Byers v Saudi National Bank [2023] UKSC 51 (Sydney) |
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| 5–6 April | Intersections in Private Law (University of Sydney) |
| 10 May | Public Law Seminar ‘The Principle of Legality’ (Sydney) |
| 30–31 August | Supreme Court Annual Conference (Newcastle) |
| 30 October | Roundtable (Prof McDonald) re: Mallonland v Advanta Seeds [2024] HCA 25, (Sydney) |
| 30 November – 1 December | Third Zines Colloquium (Australian National University, Canberra) |
Publications
- 2025: "Company law and trusts law: The use and misuse of principle" (2025) 18 Journal of Equity 193. PDF, 473.1 KB
- 2023: “Harris v Digital Pulse Pty Ltd (2003) Equity, Penalties, Controversy and Costs” published in J Goudkamp and E Katsampouka (eds), Landmark Cases in the Law of Punitive Damages (Hart Publishing, 2023), ch 12. PDF, 146.0 KB
- 2023: "Nine points about solicitors' equitable liens" (2023) 97 Australian Law Journal 873 PDF, 199.2 KB
- “The limits of rectification” (2023) 17 Journal of Equity 122-138 PDF, 297.3 KB
- Book Review - The Laws of Restitution by Robert Stevens (2023) Oxford University Press PDF, 201.5 KB
- November 2023 “Trusts and trustees: Their successes and successors" (2023) 53 Aust Bar Rev 97 PDF, 432.7 KB
- 1 June 2023 - Subjective intention in the law of contract – its role and limits PDF, 173.9 KB
- May 2023 - Book Review Essay of "Understanding the Law of Assignment" (2023) 38 Journal of Contract Law 261 PDF, 291.2 KB
- January 2023 - "Unconscionable transactions – the roles of knowledge and “predatory state of mind”" (2023) 97 ALJ 13 PDF, 200.1 KB
- October 2022 - "Penalties in Australia, the United Kingdom and Singapore - Storm-warnings, statutes and style (PDF, 234.2 KB)" (2022) 51 Australian Bar Review 377-390 PDF, 234.2 KB
- September 2022 - Book review of "The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent" (PDF, 85.4 KB) (2022) 81(2) Cambridge Law Journal 417-420 PDF, 85.4 KB
- August 2022 - "Justice Basten and the New Frontiers of Administrative Law: Crime, Tort and Contract" (PDF, 168.2 KB) (2022) 29 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 92 PDF, 168.2 KB
- February 2022 - "Well hidden" Equity - Four Equity Eucalypts (2022) 96 ALJ 102" PDF, 131.9 KB
- January 2021 - Injunctions in criminal law (2021) 95 ALJ 18 PDF, 113.2 KB
- November 2020 - "Lawyers' uses of history, from Entick v Carrington to Smethurst v Commissioner of Police" (2020) 49 Aust Bar Rev 199 PDF, 1.2 MB
- August 2020 - Foreword to R Catterwell, "A Unified Approach to Contract Interpretation" (Hart Publishing, 2020) PDF, 96.6 KB
- April 2020 - "Six differences between trustees and company directors" (2020) 94 ALJ 254 PDF, 114.4 KB
- March 2020 - A History of Australian Tort Law 1901–1945: England 1945: England ’s Obedient Servant?" (2020) 48 Aust Bar Rev 243 PDF, 215.6 KB
- October 2019 - "Has the Golden Age of Fraud Passed?" (2019) 19 OUCLJ 298 PDF, 264.5 KB
- August 2019 - “Marshalling securities and construing releases in equity” (2019) 93 ALJ 626 PDF, 132.6 KB
- August 2019 - "Statute Law in the Law of Obligations: Dimensions of Form and Substance” in A Robertson and J Goudkamp, Form and Substance in the Law of Obligations (Hart Publishing 2019), ch 15 PDF, 658.2 KB
- August 2019 - “Fusion - Fission - Fusion: Pre-Judicature Equity Jurisdiction in New South Wales 1824 – 1972” in J Goldberg et al (eds) Equity and Law: Fusion and Fission (Cambridge UP 2019), 118 PDF, 266.6 KB
- May 2019 - “The Role of equity in 21st century commercial disputes - Meeting the needs of any sophisticated and successful legal system” (2019) 47 Aust Bar Rev 137 PDF, 248.6 KB
- February 2019 - "Pipikos v Trayans - The High Court Revisits Part Performance" (2019) 93 ALJ 91 PDF, 137.4 KB
- 2018 - “Trustees’ Rights of Indemnity, Insolvency and Statutory Distributions to Preferred Creditors” (2018) 92 ALJ 503 PDF, 109.6 KB
- September 2018 - “Maintenance in Medieval England” [2018] 77 Cambridge Law Journal 402-405 PDF, 109.6 KB
- May 2018 - "Not Slavishly Nor Always - Equity and Limitation Statutes" published in P Davies, S Doulas and J Goudkamp (eds), Defences in Equity (Hart Publishing, 2018), ch 14 PDF, 122.0 KB
- April 2018 - "Receipts Clauses and 'Contractual Estoppel' Revisited" (2018) 134 LQR 171 PDF, 102.6 KB
- 2018 - Ex parte candour, Solicitors' Liens and Set-off (2018) 92 ALJ 22 PDF, 117.6 KB
- December 2017 - "Overlapping Claims at Common Law and in Equity – An Embarrassment of Riches?" (2017) 11 Journal of Equity 229. PDF, 214.0 KB
- September 2017 - Equitable Compensation for Breach of Confidence [2017] (Spring) Bar News 42-45 PDF, 198.0 KB
- 2017 - Injunctions restraining enforcement of 'Muslim Ban' Executive Orders (2017) 91 ALJ 443 PDF, 109.4 KB
- 2016 - The Primary Judge in Equity (2016) 90 ALJ 783 PDF, 128.5 KB
- 2016 - The Comparative Distinctiveness of Equity, (2016) 2(2) CJCCL 403-420 PDF, 114.8 KB
- 2016 - Proprietary Relief and Tracing in Equity (2016) 90 ALJ 92 PDF, 111.7 KB
- 2016 - Equity and statute: a commentary - published in P Turner (ed) "Equity and Administration" (Cambridge University Press, 2016), 248-257 PDF, 247.1 KB
- November 2015 - Judicial Review of Vice-Regal Decisions: South Australia v O'Shea its Precursors and its Progeny" (2015) 36 Adelaide Law Review 1 PDF, 456.8 KB
- 2015 - 'Chameleon-hued words': A note on Discretionary Trusts (2015) 89 ALJ 371 PDF, 111.5 KB
- 29 May 2015 - Ministerial Override Certificates PDF, 169.9 KB
- 27 February 2015 - Equity: Ageless in the Age of Statutes, (2015) 9 Journal of Equity 108 PDF, 364.9 KB
- 2014 - How Long is Too Long for an Equitable Claim? (2014) 88 ALJ 621 PDF, 105.9 KB
- 12 September 2014 - Farah and its progeny: comity among intermediate appellate courts (2015) 12 The Judicial Review 165 PDF, 325.9 KB
- April 2014 - The riddle of jurisdictional error (2014) 38 Aust Bar Rev 139 PDF, 93.4 KB
- 14 February 2014 - The Federal and State Courts on Constitutional Law: The 2013 term PDF, 174.5 KB
- Translating Overseas Trusts into the Australian Legal System (2014) 88 ALJ 169 PDF, 95.0 KB
- February 2014 - Theories and Principles Underlying the Development of the Common Law - The Statutory Elephant in the Room (2013) 36(3) UNSWLJ 1002 PDF, 273.6 KB
- Ex parte applications for injunctions: then and now (2013) 87 ALJ 303 PDF, 115.3 KB
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