The Hon. Justice Mark Leeming

The Hon. Justice Leeming was sworn-in as a judge of the Supreme Court on 3 June 2013

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

Speeches 2024 -

September 2024 – Introductory Remarks on the occasion of the 11th John Lehane Memorial Lecture, “Contractual Interpretation: An Anglo/Australian Journey” by The Rt Hon Lord Hamblen PDF, 118.3 KB

Speeches 2013-2023

Last updated: 30 March 2025

Justice Mark Leeming

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