Lee Aitken
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Overview
Background
Lee Aitken is an Associate Professor at the TC Beirne Faculty of Law, The University of Queensland and studied at ANU, Oxford and Columbia. He has previously taught at law schools in Canada, Hong Kong, and Australia as well as practising extensively as a solicitor and barrister. While at the Sydney Bar from 1994 to 2005 he specialized in property, banking, insolvency, and general commercial disputes. He appeared in several leading cases in the High Court of Australia including Reid v Howard (1995) 184 CLR, Garcia v National Australia Bank (1998) 194 CLR 395, Tanwar Enterprises Pty Ltd v Cauchi (2003) 217 CLR 315, and Palgo Holdings Pty Ltd v Gowans (2005) 221 CLR 249.
Availability
- Lee Aitken is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Law (Hons), Australian National University
- Bachelor of Civil Law, Oxf.
Research interests
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Contract Law
Works
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Featured
2015
Journal Article
Performance Bonds: Risk-allocation, Construction, Fraud, and Overpayment
Aitken, Lee (2015). Performance Bonds: Risk-allocation, Construction, Fraud, and Overpayment. Australian Bar Review, 40, 222-245.
Featured
2015
Journal Article
No alsatias: equitable execution, and recent developments in the asset preservation order
Aitken, Lee (2015). No alsatias: equitable execution, and recent developments in the asset preservation order. Australian Bar Review, 40, 52-63.
Featured
2015
Journal Article
Thoughts for the litigant in person – some common, but unsuccessful, arguments which should not be raised in resisting the bank's claim
Aitken, Lee (2015). Thoughts for the litigant in person – some common, but unsuccessful, arguments which should not be raised in resisting the bank's claim. Journal of Banking and Finance - Law and Practice, 26 (3), 173-181.
Featured
2015
Journal Article
Continuing Contractual Conundrums: 'Repudiating' a Contract, Penalties, Good Faith and the Scope of the Legitimate Interest Principle in White & Carter
Aitken, Lee (2015). Continuing Contractual Conundrums: 'Repudiating' a Contract, Penalties, Good Faith and the Scope of the Legitimate Interest Principle in White & Carter. Australian Bar Review, 40 (2), 112-123.
Featured
2014
Book Chapter
Options for the Dunning Creditor Under the Statute of Elizabeth
Aitken, Lee (2014). Options for the Dunning Creditor Under the Statute of Elizabeth. Exploring tensions in finance law : Trans-Tasman insights. (pp. 253-275) edited by Shelley Griffiths, Sheelagh McCracken and Ann Wardrop. Wellington, New Zealand: Thomson Reuters.
Featured
2014
Journal Article
Unscrambling 'detriment' - unjust enrichment, mistaken payments, and estoppel
Aitken, Lee (2014). Unscrambling 'detriment' - unjust enrichment, mistaken payments, and estoppel. Australian Bar Review, 38 (3), 269-282.
2017
Journal Article
A bank's `no set-off clause', the guarantor and the claim for `loss or damage' (or statutory reconfiguring of a contract)
Aitken, Lee (2017). A bank's `no set-off clause', the guarantor and the claim for `loss or damage' (or statutory reconfiguring of a contract). Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 33 (4), 74-77.
2017
Journal Article
Counterparties beware! The nature of the `security interest’: set-off, corporate insolvency and the PPSA
Aitken, Lee (2017). Counterparties beware! The nature of the `security interest’: set-off, corporate insolvency and the PPSA. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 33 (8), 125-128.
2017
Journal Article
`Widgets' or `wodgets'? A heterodox reappraisal of the fiduciary who `steals a business': `account', `allowances', "consent' and other perplexing issues
Aitken, Lee (2017). `Widgets' or `wodgets'? A heterodox reappraisal of the fiduciary who `steals a business': `account', `allowances', "consent' and other perplexing issues. Australian Bar Review, 44, 250-266.
2016
Journal Article
Interpreting R v Baden-Clay: `discovering the inward intention’, or 'what lies under the veil?'
Aitken, Lee (2016). Interpreting R v Baden-Clay: `discovering the inward intention’, or 'what lies under the veil?'. The University of Queensland Law Journal, 301-311.
2016
Journal Article
'Agency’ mortgage originators and loan enforcement
Aitken, Lee (2016). 'Agency’ mortgage originators and loan enforcement. Australian Bar Review, 41, 220-235.
2016
Journal Article
Recovering `stolen money' – Barnes v Addy, money had and received, and the struggle for remedial coherence
Aitken, Lee (2016). Recovering `stolen money' – Barnes v Addy, money had and received, and the struggle for remedial coherence. Australian Bar Review, 43, 304-320.
2016
Journal Article
‘Absolute assignment’, and the equitable ‘charge’ — Further developments
Aitken, Lee (2016). ‘Absolute assignment’, and the equitable ‘charge’ — Further developments. Australian Bar Review, 42, 310-323.
2016
Journal Article
Exact Compliance and the Letter of Credit
Aitken, Lee (2016). Exact Compliance and the Letter of Credit. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 32 (4), 82-84.
2016
Journal Article
Banker and Customer - Incorporation of Terms, Ratification and the Validity of Gee's `laws of Litigation'
Aitken, Lee (2016). Banker and Customer - Incorporation of Terms, Ratification and the Validity of Gee's `laws of Litigation'. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 32 (9), 182-185.
2015
Journal Article
Modified universalism: confined or confirmed
Aitken, Lee (2015). Modified universalism: confined or confirmed. Australian Bar Review.
2015
Journal Article
Letter of credit, right of suit, and a bill of landing
Aitken, Lee (2015). Letter of credit, right of suit, and a bill of landing. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 31 (1), 14-14.
2015
Journal Article
The ordinary course of business and the PPSA
Aitken, Lee (2015). The ordinary course of business and the PPSA. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 31 (2), 31-35.
2014
Journal Article
Restitution, trust, account, and the autonomous payment obligation
Aitken, Lee (2014). Restitution, trust, account, and the autonomous payment obligation. Law Quarterly Review, 130, 385-387.
2014
Journal Article
The artisan as lienee and recovery of storage charges in the context of general average
Aitken, Lee (2014). The artisan as lienee and recovery of storage charges in the context of general average. Law Quarterly Review, 130, 177-180.
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