Blog Posts

Contract law and contract remedies

• Katy Barnett, ‘Scots Law Influencing English Law on Deposits and Debt’ on Edinburgh Private Law Blog (2 April 2025) https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/private-law/2025/04/02/scots-law-influencing-english-law-on-deposits-and-debt/

• Katy Barnett, ‘‘Resolving Contract Disputes Uses Principles Both Ancient and Cosmopolitan’ on Pursuit (15 December 2023) https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/resolving-contract-disputes-uses-principles-both-ancient-and-cosmopolitan

• Katy Barnett, ‘The surprising Indian influence on English contractual remoteness rules’ on British Association of Comparative Law blog (27 January 2023) available at https://wp.me/p80U0W-1mn

• Katy Barnett, ‘Moore v Scenic Tours’ on Opinions on High (30 April 2020) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2020/04/30/moore-v-scenic-tours-pty-ltd/

• Katy Barnett, ‘Thorn in the Side of Prenuptial Agreements? Thorne v Kennedy’ on Opinions on High (4 December 2017) http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2017/12/04/barnett-thorne/

• Katy Barnett, ‘Corralling the Penalties Horse: Paciocco v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd‘ on Opinions on High (8 August 2016) http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2016/08/07/barnett-paciocco

• Katy Barnett, ‘Estopped from denying the ‘Love Shack’: Sidhu v Van Dyke’ on Opinions on High (21 May 2014) http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2014/05/21/barnett-sidhu/

• Katy Barnett, ‘Protecting the plaintiff’s expectations: Clark v Macourt’ on Opinions on High (10 March 2014) http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2014/03/10/barnett-clark/

Legal history and history

• Katy Barnett, ‘Clameur de haro: What an Ancient Norman Self-help Remedy Shows Us about the Common Law Today’ on British Association of Comparative Law blog (22 November 2024) https://british-association-comparative-law.org/2024/11/22/clameur-de-haro-what-an-ancient-norman-self-help-remedy-shows-us-about-the-common-law-today-by-katy-barnett/

• Katy Barnett, ‘Swans, sturgeon and mines: the history of challenges to the royal prerogative – Part II’ on Admin Law Blog (4 October 2022) https://adminlawblog.org/2022/10/04/katy-barnett-swans-sturgeon-and-mines-the-history-of-challenges-to-the-royal-prerogative-part-ii/

• Katy Barnett, ‘Swans, sturgeon and mines: the history of challenges to the royal prerogative – Part I’ on Admin Law Blog (22 September 2022) https://adminlawblog.org/2022/09/22/katy-barnett-swans-sturgeon-and-mines-the-history-of-challenges-to-the-royal-prerogative-part-i/

• Katy Barnett, ‘The Ownership of Swans in English History: Does the Queen Own All The Swans?’ on Legal History Miscellany (13 May 2020) https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/05/18/does-the-queen-own-all-the-swans/

Remedies generally

• Katy Barnett, ‘Lewis v Australian Capital Territory’ on Opinions on High (16 September 2020) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2020/09/16/lewis-v-australian-capital-territory/

• Katy Barnett, ‘News: Bell Group FINALLY over’ on Opinions on High (21 August 2020) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2020/08/21/news-bell-group-finally-over/

• Katy Barnett, ‘Berry v CCL Secure Pty Ltd’ on Opinions on High (7 August 2020) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2020/08/07/berry-v-ccl-secure-ltd/

• Katy Barnett, ‘Glencore International AG v Commissioner of Taxation’ on Opinions on High (29 November 2019) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2019/11/29/glencore-international-ag-v-commissioner-of-taxation/

Tort

• Katy Barnett, ‘The lion’s den: the strange phenomenon of self-defeating defamation cases’ in Rule of Law Education Centre (22 April 2024) https://www.ruleoflaw.org.au/lehrmann-defamation-case/

• Katy Barnett, ‘No requirement to prove innocence in malicious prosecution: Beckett v New South Wales’ on Opinions on High (3 July 2013) http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2013/07/03/barnett-beckett/

Restitution

• Katy Barnett, ‘Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd’ on Opinions on High (29 November 2019) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2019/11/29/mann-v-paterson-constructions-pty-ltd/

Trusts and equity

• Katy Barnett, ‘Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Pty Ltd v Commonwealth’ on Opinions on High (27 August 2019) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2019/08/27/carter-holt-harvey-woodproducts-australia-pty-ltd-v-commonwealth/

• Katy Barnett, ‘Masson v Parsons’ on Opinions on High (2 July 2019) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2019/07/02/masson-v-parsons/

Indigenous people and the law

• Katy Barnett, ‘Australian Securities and Investment Commission v Kobelt’ on Opinions on High (20 June 2019) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2019/06/20/australian-securities-and-investments-commission-v-kobelt/

Property law

• Katy Barnett, ‘A Statutory Exception to Immediate Indefeasibility Explained: Cassegrain v Gerard Cassegrain & Co Pty Ltd’ on Opinions on High (4 May 2015) http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2015/05/04/a-statutory-exception-to-immediate-indefeasibility-cassegrain-v-gerard-cassegrain-co-pty-ltd/

Academia and the courts

• Katy Barnett, ‘Opinion: The academy and the courts – Speech by Kiefel CJ’ on Opinions on High (22 November 2019) https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2019/11/22/opinion-the-academy-and-the-courts-speech-by-kiefel-cj/

media articles

• Katy Barnett, ‘Masked protesters targeted my professor colleague this week because he is Jewish’ in The Age (12 October 2024).

• Katy Barnett, ‘Professionalism meets freedom in academia’ in Inside Story (18 June 2024)

• Katy Barnett, ‘Activist scholarship risks turning the academy into an echo chamber’ in Times Higher Education (20 October 2022) =

• Katy Barnett, ‘Perverse incentives in academic publishing’ in Areo Magazine (26 June 2021)

• Katy Barnett, ‘Why the government is unwilling to support universities’ in Sydney Morning Herald (20 May 2021)

• Katy Barnett, ‘Other professions don’t tolerate public rudeness. Why do academics?’ in Times Higher Education (13 May 2021)

• Katy Barnett, ‘I don’t dance like the other cats’ in Right Now: Human Rights in Australia (4 October 2020)

• Katy Barnett, ‘Something is Rotten in the State of Victoria’ in Quillette (2 October 2020)

• Katy Barnett, ‘Balance needed to be tilted towards scholarly works’ in The Australian (13 February 2019)

• Katy Barnett, ‘Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong’ in Quillette (28 July 2018)

Novels and poetry

• Katy Barnett, The Earth Below, Ligature Pty Ltd, Balmain, Australia: 250 pp. (2019) (fiction).

• Katy Barnett, ‘The Tipstaff’, Authora Magazine (2022) https://www.authora.net/opentheme/the-tipstaff/katy-barnett (poem).

• Katy Barnett, The Hidden People, Self-Published, Amazon.com.au: 403 pp. (2023) (fiction).