Associate Professor Matthew Groves

Research Interests

Administrative Law and Regulation
Prisons
Wills and Administration of Estates

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

One LLB honours thesis

Masters:

Currently supervising an LLM project on the operation of the family provision legislation in Victoria.

Doctoral:

PhD:

The development of judicial review of administrative action to protect human rights

Editorial Boards

State Editor, Criminal Law Journal
Legal Adviser, South Asia
Book Reviews Editor, Australian Journal of Administrative Law

Grants and Commissions

2008: Legal Services Board of Victoria small grant ($34,000) 'Reforming Judicial Review in Victoria'. The project examines the framework for judicial review in Victoria and considers whether the Administrative Law Act 1978 (Vic) has been successful and whether it ought to be reformed or repealed.

2004: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($298,000).
Project Title: 'Religion and Governance in India c.1000-2000'.
This project examines the relationship between religion and government in India over the last millennium by use of case studies of specific issues that are pursued over an extended period. The research team comprises Assoc Professor Ian Copland and Dr Ian Mabbit (School of Historical
Studies, Monash Univ) Dr Asim Roy (School of Historical Studies, Univ of Tasmania) and Dr Adam Bowles (Research Associate, School of Historical Studies, Monash Univ).

2004: Monash Publications Grants Committee ($4,000).
Project Title: 'Law and Government in Australia' (forthcoming, Federation Press, 2005).
This is an edited volume of papers on public law in honour of Emeritus Professor Enid Campbell.

Publications

2012

‘Tribunals, Judicial Review and the Victorian Charter' (2012) 23(2) Public Law Review 9-15

‘Empathy, Experience and the Rule Against Bias in Criminal Trials' (2012) 36(3) Criminal Law Journal 84-02

"(forthcoming) ‘The Hardiman Rule' (2012) 33(2) Adelaide Law Review"

 "(forthcoming, 2012) 'The Imaginary Observer of the Bias Rule' Australian Journal of Administrative Law

"(forthcoming) ‘Do Tribunals have to be Satisfied of the Competence of Parties Before Them?' (2012) Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law"

2011

A selection of other papers by Associate Professor Groves may be accessed on-line at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=381882

M Groves, 'Federal Constitutional Influences on State Judicial Review" (2011) 39(3) Federal Law Review 399-434

M Groves, 'Military Justice,  Its Punishments and the Consultation’ (2011) 35 Criminal Law Journal 265-8

M Groves, 'The Duty to Inquire in Tribunal Proceedings' (2011) 33(2) Sydney Law Review 177-208

M Groves, 'Administrative Justice in Australian Administrative Law' (2011) 66 AIAL Forum 18-32.

M Groves, 'Outsourcing and s75(v) of the Constitution’ (2011) 22(1)  Public Law Review 3-9

M Groves, 'Administrative Justice and Asylum Appeals - A book review', (2011) 18(2) Australian Journal of Administrative Law 118-119.

Selected list of publications, including those prior to 2011