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Associate Professor Pamela OConnor

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Publications

2009

'Deferred and immediate indefeasibility: Bijural ambiguity in registered land systems' (2009) 13 Edingburgh  Law Review 194-223

'The extension of land registration principles to new property in environmental goods' in Dixon, M. (ed) Modern Studies in Property Law, Vol 5, Hart, Oxford (2009) (Forthcoming Aug 2009)

'Immediate indefeasibility for mortgagees: A moral hazard?'  Bond Law Review (Forthcoming Sept 2009)

'Legislating for sustainability: A framework for managing statutory rights, obligations and restrictions affecting private land' (with Christensen, S. and Duncan, W.) (2009) 34(2) Monash Law Review (Forthcoming)

2008

Sackville & Neave Australian Property Law (with Edgeworth, B.J., Rossiter, C.J. & Stone, M.A.) (8th Ed). LexisNexisButterworths. (2008)

'Early grants and reservations: Any lessons from the Queensland experience for the sustainability challenge to land ownership?' (with Christensen, S., Duncan, W. and Ashcroft, R.) (2008) 15 JCU Law Review 42-66

2007

'An Adjudication Rule for Encroachment Disputes: Adverse Possession or Building Encroachment Statute?', in E Cooke (Ed), Modern Studies in Property Law Vol 4. Hart, Oxford. (2007) 197-217

Measuring the Quality of Administrative Justice, paper presented at Council of Australasian Tribunals NSW Chapter, 4th Annual Conference, 11 May 2007, Sydney NSW, pp1-10

Registered Land Title, Infeasibility and the Problem of Bijural Inaccuracy, paper presented at 8th Real Property Teachers Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 12-14 June 2007, pp1-23

Professional Development for Tribunal Members, presentation at 10th AIJA Tribunals Conference, Australasian Institute for Judicial Administration, Melbourne, 7 June 2007

Administrative Review Council Best Practice Guides 1-5; Decision Making: Lawfulness; Decision Making: Natural justice; Decision Making: Evidence, Facts and Findings; Decision Making: Reasons; Decision Making: Accountability, Five guides providing information about administrative law as applied to administrative decision making in Commonwealth agencies, Administrative Review Council (Commonwealth of Australia), Barton ACT

Land Title Registration and the Perils of Bijuralism, Staff seminar presentation, University of Edinburgh, 2 February 2007

2006

‘The Private Taking of Land: Adverse Possession, Encroachments by
Buildings, and Improvement under a Mistake’, (2006) 33 UWAL Rev 31-62.

Conference paper: 'Possessory Claims to Registered Land: The Interantional Experience', Sixth Biennial Conference in Property Law, Universtiy of Reading, UK, 21-23 March 2006

Conference paper: 'Commentary on conference paper by Mary Holmes', Ninth Annual AIJA Tribunals conference, Tribunal Practice in an International Context, Canberra, 6-7 April 2006

Conference paper: 'Who Benefits from E Conveyancing', Public Lecture, Monash University Law Chambers, Melbourne, 16 May 2006

O'Connor, P.A., Freckelton, I.R. & Sallman, P., 'Practice Manual for Tribunals', Council of Australasian Tribunals, Commissioned report, 2006, 162p

Expert commentary: Interviewed in Drummond, M, 'Now it's conveyancers who beware teh e-sale', Australian Financial Review, 23 June 2006 p.60

'Legal Process (Introduction to Legal Reasoning)', in R Krever (ed) Mastering Law Studies and Law Exam Techniques 6th Edition, LexisNexis Butterworths, Chatswood NSW, 2006, p97-111

2005

"Registration of Invalid Dispositions: Wo gets the property?" in E Cooke (ed) Modern Studies in Property Law Vol 3 (Hart, Oxford 2005) pp 45-64

2004

(with Professor Elizabeth Cooke, "Purchaser Liability to Third Parties" (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review pp 640-66

Book Reviews: "Private Property and Environmental Responsibility" by M Raff and "The New Law of Land Registration" by E Cooke, (2004) 10(3) Australian Journal of Property Law pp 230-34

2003

"Information, Automation and the Conclusive Land Register" in D P Grinlinton (ed), Torrens in the Twenty First Century (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2003) pp 249-75

"Title Insurance: Is There a Catch?" (2003) 10 (2) Australian Journal of Property Law pp 120-39

"Double Indemnity: Title Insurance and the Torrens System" (2003) 3(1) QUT Law and Justice Journal pp 141-67

"Registration of Title to Land in England and Australia: A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis" in E Cooke (ed), Modern Studies in Property Law Vol 2 (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2003), pp 81-100

"Reparation for Australia’s Indigenous Children: Defining the Wrong" [2000-03] Third World Legal Studies pp 219-38

Monash Staff PhD thesis completed July 2003, "Security of Property Rights and Land Title Registration Systems"

2001

(with Beth Gaze, 50%) ‘Training for Better Decisions: Designing a Computer-mediated Distance Education Subject for Tribunal Members’, (2001) Vol 13, No 1, Legal Ed R 21-44

‘Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada by Patrick Macklem, Book Review’ (2001) 27(2) Mon L R 376-80

‘Cubillo v Commonwealth, Gunner v Commonwealth - History on trial, (2001) 26(1) Alt LJ 37-39

2000

‘Squaring the Circle: How Canada is Dealing with the Legacy of its Residential Schools Experiment’ (2000) 6:1 Australian Journal of Human Rights 188-215 (reproduced, with the permission of the editors of the AJHR, in (2000) 28:2 International Journal of Legal Information 232-65) 

1998

‘Indigenous Policy, Native Title and the Rule of Law’ (1998) 5 Agenda 501-8

‘Knowing When to Say: “Yes Minister”: Ministerial Control of Discretions Vested in Officials’ (1998) 5(3) A J Admin L 168-82

1997

(With M A Hughson and M Neave), ‘Reflections on the Mirror of Title: Resolving the Conflict Between Purchasers and Prior Interest Holders’ (1997) 21 MULR 460-96

‘Decisions Made in the Absence of Formal Delegation of Power’ (1997) 2(4) Local Government Law Journal 225-34

‘The Wik Decision: Judicial Activism or Conventional Ruling?’ (1997) 4 Agenda 217-224

1996

‘Happy Partners or Strange Bedfellows: The Blending of Institutional and Remedial Features in the Evolving Constructive Trust’ (1996) 20 MULR 735-62

1995

LLM major thesis, Unadjudicated Claims to Equitable Interests: Their Status as Property Under the Pension Assets Test, submitted July 1995, University of Melbourne 

1994

`Overriding Statutes and Public Rights of Way as Exceptions to Indefeasibility', (1994) 19:3 MULR 156-179

 
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