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Professor Rick Bigwood
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Rick Bigwood

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Overview

Background

Professor Rick Bigwood’s principal teaching and research interests lie in the areas of contract and property law. He was formerly a Senior Solicitor and Acting Principal Solicitor with the Federal Attorney-General's Department in Canberra (Office of Commercial Law). Before joining TC Beirne School of Law, Professor Bigwood taught at Bond University for five years, and he was on the Auckland Law Faculty for 16 years before that, where he was also the Director of the Research Centre for Business Law. He has published widely in leading international journals on subjects within contract, equity and property law, and he has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on contract law. His publications include the following books: Legal Method in New Zealand (Butterworths, 2001); Exploitative Contracts (Oxford University Press, 2003) (awarded the JF Northey Memorial Book Award for 2003); The Statute: Making and Meaning (LexisNexis, 2004); Public Interest Litigation: The New Zealand Experience in International Perspective (LexisNexis, 2006); The Permanent New Zealand Court of Appeal: Essays on the First 50 Years (Hart Publishing, 2009); Contract as Assumption: Essays on a Theme (by Brian Coote) (Hart Publishing, 2010); The Law of Remedies: New Directions in the Common Law (Irwin Law, 2010) (with Jeff Berryman); and Cheshire & Fifoot, Law of Contract (10th Australian edition, 2012) (with Nick Seddon). Professor Bigwood was formerly the General Editor of the New Zealand Universities Law Review, and was Editor of the New Zealand Law Review 2002-2008. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of the New Zealand Universities Law Review and the Journal of Contract Law. Professor Bigwood has received a number of awards, prizes and honours for his teaching at various tertiary educational institutions, in a variety of countries, including a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in 2006 (New Zealand).

Availability

Professor Rick Bigwood is:
Available for supervision

Research interests

  • Contract law

  • Property law

Works

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57 works between 1987 and 2023

1 - 20 of 57 works

2023

Journal Article

Legal fictions and the attainment of the just result: Continuing (mis)representation and the Insurance Contracts Act

Bigwood, Rick (2023). Legal fictions and the attainment of the just result: Continuing (mis)representation and the Insurance Contracts Act. Journal of Contract Law, 39 (1) 1, 27-50.

Legal fictions and the attainment of the just result: Continuing (mis)representation and the Insurance Contracts Act

2022

Book

Cheshire and Fifoot law of contract

Seddon, Nicholas and Bigwood, Rick (2022). Cheshire and Fifoot law of contract. 12th ed. Chatswood, NSW, Australia: LexisNexis.

Cheshire and Fifoot law of contract

2021

Journal Article

Strict Liability Unconscionability in the Supreme Court of Canada: Observations on Uber Technologies Inc. v Heller

Bigwood, Rick (2021). Strict Liability Unconscionability in the Supreme Court of Canada: Observations on Uber Technologies Inc. v Heller. Canadian Business Law Journal, 65 (2), 153-194.

Strict Liability Unconscionability in the Supreme Court of Canada: Observations on Uber Technologies Inc. v Heller

2021

Journal Article

Uncertainty in private law: rhetorical device or substantive legal argument?

Bigwood, Rick and Dietrich, Joachim (2021). Uncertainty in private law: rhetorical device or substantive legal argument?. Melbourne University Law Review, 45 (1), 60-98.

Uncertainty in private law: rhetorical device or substantive legal argument?

2021

Book Chapter

Contract Vitiation

Bigwood, Rick (2021). Contract Vitiation. Australian Contract Law in the 21st Century. (pp. 153-173) edited by John Eldridge and Timothy Pilkington. Alexandria, NSW Australia: Federation Press.

Contract Vitiation

2020

Book Chapter

The norm against misleading conduct and implications for the regulation of ‘misleading silence’

Bigwood, Rick (2020). The norm against misleading conduct and implications for the regulation of ‘misleading silence’. Misleading silence. (pp. 107-132) edited by Elise Bant and Jeannie Paterson. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781509929283.ch-005

The norm against misleading conduct and implications for the regulation of ‘misleading silence’

2019

Journal Article

Knocking down the straw man: reflections on BOM v BOK and the Court of Appeal's "Middle-Ground" narrow doctrine of unconscionability for Singapore

Bigwood, Rick (2019). Knocking down the straw man: reflections on BOM v BOK and the Court of Appeal's "Middle-Ground" narrow doctrine of unconscionability for Singapore. Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 29-66.

Knocking down the straw man: reflections on BOM v BOK and the Court of Appeal's "Middle-Ground" narrow doctrine of unconscionability for Singapore

2019

Journal Article

Undue influence as constructive fraud

Bigwood, Rick (2019). Undue influence as constructive fraud. Journal of Equity, 13, 144-182.

Undue influence as constructive fraud

2019

Book

Variations on the theme of contract

Fridman, Gerald and Bigwood, Rick (2019). Variations on the theme of contract. Toronto, ON Canada: LexisNexis Canada.

Variations on the theme of contract

2019

Journal Article

The undue influence of "non-Australian" undue influence law on Australian undue influence law: farewell Johnson v Buttress? Part II

Bigwood, Rick (2019). The undue influence of "non-Australian" undue influence law on Australian undue influence law: farewell Johnson v Buttress? Part II. Journal of Contract Law, 35, 187-215.

The undue influence of "non-Australian" undue influence law on Australian undue influence law: farewell Johnson v Buttress? Part II

2019

Book Chapter

Exploitation

Bigwood, Rick (2019). Exploitation. Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy: A New Agenda for Teaching. (pp. 61-78) edited by Warren Swain and David Campbell. Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315178189

Exploitation

2019

Book Chapter

New Zealand perspectives on contract remedies

Bigwood, Rick (2019). New Zealand perspectives on contract remedies. Research handbook on remedies in private law. (pp. 390-408) edited by Roger Halson and David Campbell. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781786431271.00031

New Zealand perspectives on contract remedies

2018

Journal Article

Teaching Contract Vitiation in Australia: New Challenges in Subject Design

Bigwood, Rick and Mullins, Rob (2018). Teaching Contract Vitiation in Australia: New Challenges in Subject Design. Bond Law Review, 30 (2), 185-216. doi: 10.53300/001c.6797

Teaching Contract Vitiation in Australia: New Challenges in Subject Design

2018

Journal Article

The undue influence of "non-Australian" undue influence law on Australian undue influence law: farewell Johnson v Buttress? Part I

Bigwood, Rick (2018). The undue influence of "non-Australian" undue influence law on Australian undue influence law: farewell Johnson v Buttress? Part I. Journal of Contract Law, 35 (1), 56-89.

The undue influence of "non-Australian" undue influence law on Australian undue influence law: farewell Johnson v Buttress? Part I

2018

Book Chapter

Continuing representation and strict responsibility for accuracy after Cramaso: fact or (legal) fiction?

Bigwood, Rick A. (2018). Continuing representation and strict responsibility for accuracy after Cramaso: fact or (legal) fiction?. Transnational Commercial and Consumer Law: Current Trends in International Business Law. (pp. 187-221) edited by Toshiyuki Kono, Mary Hiscock and Arie Reich. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-1080-5_8

Continuing representation and strict responsibility for accuracy after Cramaso: fact or (legal) fiction?

2017

Journal Article

‘Rescuing the Canadian Unconscionability Doctrine? Reflections on the Court’s “Applicable Principles” in Downer v. Pitcher’

Bigwood, Rick (2017). ‘Rescuing the Canadian Unconscionability Doctrine? Reflections on the Court’s “Applicable Principles” in Downer v. Pitcher’. Canadian Business Law Journal, 60 (1), 124-155.

‘Rescuing the Canadian Unconscionability Doctrine? Reflections on the Court’s “Applicable Principles” in Downer v. Pitcher’

2017

Book

Cheshire & Fifoot law of contract

Seddon, N. C. and Bigwood, R. A. (2017). Cheshire & Fifoot law of contract. Sydney: LexisNexis.

Cheshire & Fifoot law of contract

2014

Book Chapter

The partial codification of contract: lessons from New Zealand

Bigwood, Rick (2014). The partial codification of contract: lessons from New Zealand. Codifying contract law: consumer law and international law perspectives. (pp. 165-203) edited by Mary Keyes and Therese Wilson. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.

The partial codification of contract: lessons from New Zealand

2013

Journal Article

Still curbing unconscionability: Kakavas in the High Court of Australia

Bigwood, Rick (2013). Still curbing unconscionability: Kakavas in the High Court of Australia. Melbourne University Law Review, 37, 463-508.

Still curbing unconscionability: Kakavas in the High Court of Australia

2012

Book Chapter

Review of A. Swan and J. Adamski’s Canadian Contract Law

Bigwood, Rick (2012). Review of A. Swan and J. Adamski’s Canadian Contract Law. Canadian Contract Law. (pp. 313-322) edited by Angela Swan and Jakub Adamski. Ontario, Canada: LexisNexis.

Review of A. Swan and J. Adamski’s Canadian Contract Law

Funding

Past funding

  • 2018 - 2022
    Holding Redlich-UQ Property Law Research Partnership
    Holding Redlich
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Professor Rick Bigwood is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Source, Nature and Limits of a Duty to Act Reasonably in Australian Contract Law

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Informality in State and Territory Combined Jurisdiction Tribunals

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Anthony Cassimatis, Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh

Completed supervision

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