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Prue Vines

Publications





Books

Sappideen, Vines, Grant and Watson,  Morison and Sappideen’s Torts: commentary and materials, 9th ed, Thomson, Sydney 2006, pp 1-1028 .

Vines, Prue  Law and Justice in Australia; foundations of the legal system,  Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2005, pp 1-373. 

Atherton and Vines, Succession: families, Property and death, 2nd ed,  LexisNexis Butterworths, Sydney, 2003 , pp 1- 664)

Atherton and Vines: Australian Succession Law:  commentary and materials, Butterworths, 1996 pp 1-906





Chapters in books

Vines P and Croucher R, ‘Law and religion: religion and death in the common law’ in P Radan, D Meyerson and R Croucher (eds), Law and Religion: God, the State and the Common Law,  Routledge Studies in Religion, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and New York, 2005, pp 295-320

Vines, P ‘Succession and Trusts’ in RB Vermeesch and K Lindgren, Business Law of Australia, 11th ed, Lexis Nexis Butterworths, 2005  pp1020-1044 

Vines, Prue ‘When Cultures Clash: Aborigines and Inheritance in Australia’ in Miller, G (ed) Frontiers of Family Law, Ashgate Press, 2003, pp  98-119.

Vines, P ‘Succession and Trusts’ in RB Vermeesch and K Lindgren, Business Law of Australia, 10th ed, Butterworths, 2001, pp 1053-1079

Vines, Prue, ‘Dealing with Death and the Body from a multicultural Perspective – the post-mortem examination’ in Atherton R (ed) The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, Selected Papers 1997-1999,  535-546.

Vines, P ‘Bodily remains in the  Cemetery and the Burial Ground: a comparative anthropology of law and death  or  how long can I stay?’ in D Manderson,  Courting Death, Pluto Press, London, 1999, pp 111-127.

Vines, P ‘Succession and Trusts’ in RB Vermeesch and K Lindgren, Business Law of Australia, 9th ed, Butterworths, 1998, pp 1279-1313.

Vines, P ‘Update: Guide to the Preparation of Wills’ Lawyers Practice Manual NSW,  Redfern Legal Centre, LBC Information Services, 1998,  32 pages.

Vines, P, ‘Succession’ in R Baxt and A Moore (eds)  An Annual Survey of Australian Law , Adelaide Law Review Association, 1995, pp 445-468

Vines, P, ‘Duty of Care in Supported Accommodation’ in S Mc Cullough (ed)  Older Residents Legal Rights, Federation Press, Sydney 1993, pp 444-468.





Refereed Articles

Vines, Prue,  ‘The sacred and the profane: property concepts in post-mortem examinations’ forthcoming (2007) Sydney Law Review

Vines, Prue, ‘The Power of Apology: mercy, forgiveness or corrective justice in the civil liability arena’  forthcoming, (2007) 1(1)  Public Space: the journal of law and social justice

Vines, Prue, ‘Suffer the little children: limitations provisions for children  with personal injury.’ (2007) 3(10)Australian Civil Liability 89-92 

Vines, Prue ‘Drafting Wills for Indigenous People: pitfalls and considerations’ (2007) 6(25)  Indigenous Law Bulletin 6-9

Fitzsimmons, Kozlina and Vines, ‘Optimising the First Year Experience: the Law Peer Tutor Program at the University of New South Wales’,  (2006) 16 (1 & 2) Legal Education Review 99-124

Vines, Prue ‘Apologising to avoid liability: cynical civility or practical morality?’ (2005) 27(5) Sydney Law Review 483-505.

Prue Vines, ‘Consequences of Intestacy for Indigenous People in Australia : the passing of property and burial rights’ (2004) 8(4)  Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 1-10, ISSN 1323-7756

Vines, Prue ‘Agent responsibility and vicarious liability: commentary on Peter Cane,  Responsibility in Law and Morality(2004)  29 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 179-184

Vines, Prue, ‘ State of New South Wales v Lepore; Rich and Samin v State of Queensland: School’s Responsibility for Teachers’ Sexual Assault: Non-Delegable Duty and Vicarious Liability (2003) 27(2)  Melbourne University Law Review 612-626

 Vines, Prue ‘Challenging the testator’s mind by challenging lifetime transactions: Bridgewater v Leahy as backdoor probate law’ (2003) 10 Australian Property Law Journal 53-63.

Vines, Prue, ‘ “In the Name of God, Amen”: seeking the testator’s authentic voice in research using wills’ (2002) 6  Law Text Culture 63-85

Vines, PE, ‘The Quality and Proof of Intention in the dispensing power: lessons from a short history’ (2002) 9 (3) Australian Property Law Journal 264-281

Vines, Prue ‘Tort Reform, Insurance and Responsibility’ (2002) 25(3) UNSW Law Journal 842-848  

Vines, Prue, ‘Wills as Shields and Spears: the failure of intestacy law and the need for wills for customary law purposes in Australia’ (2001) 5 (13)  Indigenous Law Bulletin 16-19.

Vines, PE  ‘Fault, responsibility and negligence in the High Court of Australia ‘ (2000) 8(2) Tort Law Review  130-145

Vines, PE  ‘The needle in the haystack: principle in the duty of care’ (2000) 23 (2) University of New South Wales Law Journal  35-57

Vines, P ‘Objections to post-mortem examination – multiculturalism, psychology and legal decision-making’ (2000) 7 (4)  Journal of Law and Medicine 422-433.

 Vines PE and McFarlane, O, ‘Investigating to Save Lives: coroners and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’ (2000) 4(27)  Indigenous Law Bulletin  8-13.

 Vines, Prue ‘Resting in Peace?: a comparison of the legal control of bodily remains in cemeteries and Aboriginal burial grounds in Australia ’  (1998) 20(1) Sydney Law Review  78-107

 Vines, Prue, ‘Land and Royal Revenue: the Statute for the Explanation of the Statue of Wills 1542-43’ (1997)  3(1)  Australian Journal of Legal History 113-130





Other articles

Vines, Prue, Casenote: Mackenzie v Nominal Defendant (2005) 2 (8) Australian Civil Liability  6.

Vines, PrueApologies in  the civil liability context’ (2005) 2 (1) Australian Civil Liability 6.

Vines, Prue ‘Insuring (for) better tort law – invisible insurers and invisible facts’ (2004) 1 (5) Australian Civil Liability 53-55 

Vines, Prue ‘Faith, hope and personal injury: the Ipp Report and the Civil Liability Acts ‘ (2004)  1 (1) Australian Civil Liability  1-7

Vines, Prue , Headnote:  Dow v Hoskins (2003) 8 (2) AILR 37

Vines, Prue, ‘Tort Law’ 1(1)  Australian Student Law Reporter , Cavendish Publishing, pp42-44, 2004

Vines, P ‘Estate Planning for Family Provision: Barns v Barns (2003) 6 (1) Retirement and Estate Planning Bulletin, 13-14.

Vines, Prue ‘Formalism Modified: recent developments in the statutory power to rectify wills’ (2002) 5 (1) Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin 10-13.

Vines, Prue  ’Cultural conflict or enriching dialogue? Cross-cultural  issues in will-drafting’ (2002)  81 Reform 34-37

Vines, Prue  ‘Audio-taped wills: speaking or writing – what’s the difference?’ (2002) 5(4) Retirement and Estate Planning Bulletin  57-60.

Vines, Prue , ‘Guest Editorial: Informed Consent: from paternal benevolence to trust mediated by truthfulness’ (1996) 42(3)  Australian Physiotherapy pp 245-246





Major Reviews

Butler, D, Handford, P, Mullany N and Vines, P, Law Council of Australia’s  Submission to the Negligence Review Panel’s Review of the Law of Negligence  (2002): available at http://revofneg.treasury.gov.au 

Vines, P (with R Atherton) ‘Wills’,  Laws of Australia, Law Book Co, 1999 pp 1-201.

Vines, PE , consultant Editor, Australian Legal Dictionary, ‘Succession’, Butterworths, 1997

Vines, PE, Consultant Editor, Concise Australian Legal Dictionary,  ‘Succession’ , Butterworths, 1997.

Vines P ( with R Atherton) Halsburys Laws of England: Australian commentary on Wills  1993 pp 1-138

Vines, P  Halsburys’ Laws of Australia: Succession - Wills. (1996)

Vines PE and Reynolds R, (eds)  Legal Systems and the Administration of Justice ( in English and Khmer Languages) , Faculty of Business in Phnom Penh and the Australian International Legal Education Committee, 1996.





Conference and seminar Papers

2007: ‘Vicarious Liability as Collective Responsibility’  Australian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference April 2007

2006: ‘Succession in a multicultural environment’: UTS Law School Staff seminar

2006: ‘Beyond Conflicts of laws’ University of Sydney CLE paper

2006: ‘Apologies in England, Wales and Scotland: the view from Australia’ Glasgow University Law School Seminar

2006: ‘Apologies in private law: empirical and socio-legal approaches’ Strathclyde University law School Seminar

2006: ‘Using Equitable Doctrines in drafting Wills for Indigenous Australians’ : Law School of University of Newcastle-on-Tyne Seminar.

2005 ‘Apologies in the civil liability regime’ University of Sydney Inaugural Discipline of Business Law Seminar.

2005, ‘Hypothetical: Contact on the sporting field and the law’ Australian and New Zealand Sports Lawyers Association Annual Conference.

2005, ‘What’s the point of tort law?’ Australian Lawyers Alliance ACT Conference.

2005, ‘Policy, policing and the duty of care’ Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference

2004.‘The role of property in disputes about post-mortem examination’ Paper for Colloquium: property and the human body, Macquarie University Law School

2004: ‘Issues in Succession for Indigenous People in Australia’ Paper for Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Sydney.

2003‘Recent developments in the law of wills’ UNSW Continuing Legal Education Paper

2003: ‘Recent developments in the High Court in Personal Injury’ Paper for Law Society of New South Wales Personal Injury Specialist Accreditation Annual Conference.

2003‘ Are law and medicine in collision’ ( with Yega Muthu, BA Hocking and B Zipser), Paper given to 28th International Congress on Law and mental Health

2003 Migrants and the Court Experience’ Keynote speech: Legal Studies Teachers conference, parliament House, NSW, 23 Oct 2003

2002: ‘Apologies and Tort Reform’ Paper presented at Discussion forum on the New South Wales Civil Liability Reforms, Mon 23 Sept 2002, Parliament House, NSW ( by invitation)

2002 ‘Recent developments in the validity of wills ‘ Paper for UNSW CLE

2002 ‘The Negligence Review panel Recommendations and the way forward’ UNSW CLE paper.

2001 ‘The role of duty, breach and causation in personal responsibility in the tort of negligence’ Torts Workshop, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU

2001 ‘Wills , Intestacy and Customary Law for Indigenous Australians ‘ paper for Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference

2001 ‘Historical Research Using Wills’ Paper for Legal Intersections Workshop, University of Wollongong.

2001 ‘Aborigines and intestacy: a plea for will-making as customary law’ Seminar paper: Warwick University Law School

2001 ‘Aborigines and intestacy: a plea for will-making as customary law’ Seminar paper: East Anglia University Law School.

2000 ‘Causation in negligence after  Chappel v Hart’  paper for Australasian Law Schools Association Conference

2000 ‘Recent Developments in relation to the Validity of Wills, UNSW CLE paper

2000 ‘Recent developments in the duty of care and causation’ UNSW CLE paper

1999 ‘Is proximity dead or has it just been fragmented?’ UNSW Faculty of Law seminar paper.

1999 ‘Responsibility in negligence – new developments?’ Paper for Australian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference.

1998 ‘An Explanation of the Statute for the Explanation of the Statute of Wills’ Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference paper

1998 ‘Dealing with Death and the body from a multicultural perspective – the post-mortem examination’, paper for International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, Sydney conference ( by invitation)