Book Chapter
David McLauchlan (2015). Liability under Hedley Byrne for 'pre-contract' negligent misrepresentation: a New Zealand perspective. In Kit Barker, Ross Grantham and Warren Swain (Ed.), The Law of Misstatements: 50 Years on from Hedley Byrne v Heller (pp. 291-318) Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart.
Journal Articles
McLauchlan, David (2014) Construction and implication: in defence of Belize Telecom. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 203-240.
McLauchlan, David (2014) Refining rectification. Law Quarterly Review, 130 83-111.
Brazier, Lauren and McLauchlan, David (2013) A failure to perform: but was it a breach?. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 25 5: 1107-1121.
McLauchlan, David (2013) "Frustration" in the Court of Appeal. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 44 3/4: 593-608.
McLauchlan, David (2013) More on implied terms. New Zealand Law Journal, 9 346-349.
McLauchlan, David (2013) Contract damages: fundamental principle, fundamental disagreement. Canadian Business Law Journal, 46 1: 89-94.
McLauchlan, David (2013) The uncertain basis of the postal acceptance rule?. Journal of Contract Law, 30 1: 33-51.
McLauchlan, David (2012) The contract that neither party intends. Journal of Contract Law, 29 26-46.
McLauchlan, David and Lees, Matthew (2012) More construction controversy. Journal of Contract Law, 29 2: 97-120.
McLauchlan, David (2012) The entire agreement clause: conclusive or a question of weight?. Law Quarterly Review, 128 521-540.
McLauchlan, David (2011) A construction conundrum. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2011 3: 428-448.
McLauchlan, David W. and Bigwood, Rick (2011) Lapse of offers due to changed circumstances: A contract conversation. Journal of Contract Law, 27 3: 222-246.
McLauchlan, David (2011) Common intention and contract interpretation. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2011 1: 30-50.
McLauchlan, David and Lees, Matthew (2011) Construction controversy. Journal of Contract Law, 28 2: 101-121.
McLauchlan, David (2011) The redundant reliance interest in contract damages. Law Quarterly Review, 127 23-27.
McLauchlan, David W. (2010) Deleted words, prior negotiations and contract interpretation. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 24 2: 277-301.
McLauchlan, David (2010) Contract interpretation in the Supreme Court: Easy case, hard law?. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 16 3: 229-267.
McLauchlan, David W. (2010) Commonsense principles of interpretation and rectification. Law Quarterly Review, 126: 8-14.
McLauchlan, David (2009) Contract interpretation and subsequent conduct. New Zealand Law Journal, 125-127.
McLauchlan, David W. (2009) Plain Meaning and Commercial Construction: Has Australia Adopted the ICS Principles?. Journal of Contract Law, 25 1: 7-38.
McLauchlan, David W. (2009) Interpretation and Rectification: Lord Hoffmann's Last Stand. New Zealand Law Review, 2009 3: 431-453.
McLauchlan, David W. (2009) Contract Interpretation: What Is It About?. The Sydney Law Review, 31 1: 5-51.
McLauchlan, David W. (2008) Timely payment but no settlement: A necessary requirement of notification?. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 14: 37-44.
McLauchlan, David (2008) The ‘drastic’ remedy of rectification for unilateral mistake. Law Quarterly Review, 124 608-640.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2007) Some issues in the assessment of expectation damages. New Zealand Law Review, 2007 563-629.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2007) Reliance damages for breach of contract. New Zealand Law Review, 2007 417-457.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2006) Is there a reliance interest in contact damages?. New Zealand Law Journal, August 254-257.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2006) Contract Formation, Contract Interpretation and Subsequent Consequences. University of Queensland Law Journal, 25 1: 77-110.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2006) In Defence of a Role for Subsequent Conduct in Contract Interpretation. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 12 30-49.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005) Defying common sense in contract. New Zealand Law Journal, 2005 9: 300-302.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005) Objectivity in contract. University of Queensland Law Journal, 24 2: 479-497.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005) Parol evidence and contract formation. Law Quarterly Review, 121 January: 9-16.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005) Mistake of identity and contract formation. The Journal of Contract Law, 21 1: 1-50.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005) In defence of the fourth category of preliminary agreements. Journal of Contract Law, 21 3: 286-305.
McLauchlan, David (2004) Contract Interpretation : A Return to Judicial Conservatism?. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 10 66-84.
McLauchlan, D. (2004) A contract conundrum?. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 10 3: 189-202.
McLauchlan, D. W. (2004) Interpretation and necessary implications. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 21 2: 331-337.
McLauchlan, David W. (2003) The justiciability of an agreement to negotiate in good faith. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 20 3: 265-298.
McLauchlan, David (2003) More on the Contractual Mistakes 'Code'. New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 9 51-65.
McLauchlan, David W. (2002) Intention, Incompleteness and Uncertainty in the New Zealand Court of Appeal. Journal of Contract Law, 18 2: 153-179.
Conference Paper
McLauchlan, D. W. (2005). The Agreement to Negotiate in Good Faith: A Non-Justifiable Contract?. In: I Eagles, New Zealand Business Law Quarterly. Commercial Good Faith Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand, (454-478). 2 September 2005.