Associate Professor Lee Aitken
Associate Professor
School of Law
W250 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus. Availability by appointment.
| Featured projects | Duration |
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Competition and bank liquidity BEL Collaboration Seeding Grants Scheme |
2018 |
Book Chapter
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.
Journal Articles
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.
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.
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.
Aitken, Lee (2016). 'Agency’ mortgage originators and loan enforcement. Australian Bar Review, 41, 220-235.
Aitken, Lee (2016). ‘Absolute assignment’, and the equitable ‘charge’ — Further developments. Australian Bar Review, 42, 310-323.
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.
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.
Aitken, Lee (2016). Exact Compliance and the Letter of Credit. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 32 (4), 82-84.
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.
Aitken, Lee (2015). Modified universalism: confined or confirmed. Australian Bar Review.
Aitken, Lee (2015). No alsatias: equitable execution, and recent developments in the asset preservation order. Australian Bar Review, 40, 52-63.
Aitken, Lee (2015). Performance Bonds: Risk-allocation, Construction, Fraud, and Overpayment. Australian Bar Review, 40, 222-245.
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.
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.
Aitken, Lee (2015). The ordinary course of business and the PPSA. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 31 (2), 31-35.
Aitken, Lee (2015). Letter of credit, right of suit, and a bill of landing. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 31 (1), 14-14.
Aitken, Lee (2014). Restitution, trust, account, and the autonomous payment obligation. Law Quarterly Review, 130, 385-387.
Aitken, Lee (2014). The artisan as lienee and recovery of storage charges in the context of general average. Law Quarterly Review, 130, 177-180.
Aitken, Lee (2014). "Delivery", "escrow", recitals and estoppel, and attestation: current questions with deeds. Australian Law Journal, 88 (8), 561-566.
Aitken, Lee (2014). Unscrambling 'detriment' - unjust enrichment, mistaken payments, and estoppel. Australian Bar Review, 38 (3), 269-282.
Aitken, Lee (2013). Deposits, instalments and recovery of "over payment". Law Quarterly Review, 129 (4), 489-491.
Aitken, Lee (2013). No return of Alsatia. Law Quarterly Review, 129 (2), 147-149.
Aitken, Lee (2013). What is an “absolute” assignment? Further reflections on charges, “tacking” and marshalling. Journal of Banking and Finance - Law and Practice, 24, 93-103.
Aitken, Lee (2013). "Piercing the Corporate Veil" and the "Remedial Constructive Contract". Law Quarterly Review, 129 (1), 21-24.
Aitken, Lee (2013). ‘Dependent’ promises, failed contractual performance, and the influence of civil law on the ‘options’ of the innocent party: White & Carter revisited. Australian Bar Review, 36 (3), 290-301.
Aitken, Lee (2013). Contract, confidence and the fiduciary relationship. Australian Law Journal, 87 (6), 425-432.
Aitken, Lee (2013). Mistake payments - the faith of receipt defence. Australian Bar Review, 302-309.
Aitken, Lee (2013). Elective or Automatic Termination of a Contract of Employment. Law Quarterly Review, 129, 335-337.
Aitken, Lee (2012). Sins of omission: Torrens title and easements. Law Society Journal, 50, 66-66.
Aitken, Lee (2012). "Segregation" of funds, insolvency, and the "statutory" trust. Law Quarterly Review, 128, 497-499.
Aitken, Lee (2012). Carbon credit theft: remedies in English case point way for for Australia. Law Society Journal
Aitken, Lee (2012). The "rule" in Cherry v Boultbee and the problem of "double proof" in insolvency. Law Quarterly Review, 128, 202-204.
Aitken, Lee (2012). Two `simple' problems with the "uncommercial transaction". Australian Law Journal, 86, 47-57.
Aitken, Lee (2012). Recent developments in the shareholder’s derivative action. Commercial Law Quarterly, 26 (3), 14-14.
Aitken, Lee (2012). Priority in equity: failure to caveat and "postponing conduct"?. Australian Law Journal, 86 (5), 291-295.
Aitken, Lee (2012). Fundamental, and ‘anticipatory’ breach and the impact of ‘rescission’. Australian Bar Review, 36 (1), 18-30.
Aitken, Lee (2012). "Asset lending" and the improvident borrower. Australian Law Journal, 86 (2), 134-137.
Aitken, Lee (2012). Equitable charge or equitable mortgage?. Commercial Law Quarterly, 21 (1), 3-6.
Aitken, Lee (2011). Thoughts for the litigant in person. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 26 (8), 125-125.
Aitken, Lee (2011). The modern position on equitable set-off, and "retention" in Scotland. Law Quarterly Review, 127, 176-179.
Aitken, Lee (2011). Lender versus intending surety – the duty to advise. Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin, 27 (3), 42-42.
Aitken, Lee (2011). ‘Without prejudice’ revisited. Australian Bar Review, 34 (3), 296-305.
Aitken, Lee (2011). A liability ‘properly incurred’? — The trustee’s right to indemnity, and exemption from liability for breach of trust. Australian Bar Review, 35 (1), 53-70.
Aitken, Lee (2011). “Recognising an elephant”: equitable set-off, “impeaching title” and the modern position on “sufficient connection”. Australian Law Journal, 85 (1), 51-59.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Forfeiture and the operating lease. Law Quarterly Review, 126, 505-507.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Trespass, trover, and domestic correspondence. Law Quarterly Review, 126, 179-183.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Set-off, the `Anti-deprivation' Principle and Ipso Facto Clauses in the `Financial Crisis'. Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 21 (1), 70-78.
Aitken, Lee (2010). The Future of the `Minimum Equity' and the Appropriate `Fault Line' in Promissory and Proprietary Estoppel. Australian Bar Review, 33, 212-222.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Three clear sundays. Australian Law Journal, 84 (4), 210-210.
Aitken, Lee (2010). The jurisdiction to relieve against forfeiture in a commercial transaction. Australian Bar Review, 33, 110-118.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Abandonment of a chattel, and the unwitting bailee: Position in Robot Arenas Ltd [2010] EWHC 115 (QB). Australian Law Journal, 84 (6), 369-371.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Current issues with caveats: a pan-Australian conspectus. Australian Law Journal, 84 (1), 22-31.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Recent applications of the rule in Cherry v Boultbee (or Jeffs v Wood). Australian Law Journal, 84 (3), 191-198.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Enforcing the undertaking as to damages. Civil Justice Quarterly, 29 (4), 405-410.
Aitken, Lee (2010). Set-off, Relief Against Forfeiture and Repudiation of the Lease. Australian Property Law Journal, 19, 46-58.
Lee Aitken (2010). Resuscitating Unenforceable Contracts. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 48 (2), 56-57.
Aitken, Lee (2010). The Forged Mortgage: Further Developments in 'van den Heuvel v Perpetual Trustees Victoria Ltd' [2010] NSWCA 171. Commercial Law Quarterly, 24 (3), 28-30.
Aitken, Lee (2009). Discretion, Power and the Accrued Jurisdiction of the Family Court. Australian Law Journal, 83, 694-703.
Aitken, Lee (2009). Recent Developments in Shareholder's Derivative Action: Hong Kong and Australian Perspectives. Hong Kong Law Journal, 39, 129-142.
Aitken, Lee (2009). Share Trading and the Clog on the Equity of Redemption. Australian Law Journal, 83, 237-241.
Aitken, Lee (2009). Control and the Discretionary Trust. Law Quarterly Review, 125, 542-544.
Aitken, Lee (2009). Muddying the Waters Further: Kennon v Spry - `ownership', `control' and the Discretionary Trust. Australian Bar Review, 32, 173-179.
Aitken, Lee (2008). Recovery of Chattels in the Common and Civil Law: Possession, Bailment, and Spoliation Suits. Australian Law Journal, 82, 379-391.
Aitken, Lee (2008). 'Control’, ‘ownership’ and the beneficiary of the discretionary trust: case note. Australian Bar Review, 31 (1), 128-131.
Aitken, Lee (2008). Trespass, Injunctions and Damages. Australian Law Journal, 82, 364-366.
Aitken, Lee (2007). Trade Secrets', Know-how and Employment Restraints: Preserving Commercial Confidences when Employment Ends. Commercial Law Quarterly, 21 (4), 32-36.
Aitken, Lee (2007). Equitable and Other Defences to the Mortgagee's Sale. Journal of Equity, 2, 26-39.
Aitken, Lee J. W. (1990). Success at the Bar: lessons from literature and prosopography. Australian Bar Review, 6 (2), 169-175.