My friend managed to get genuine bits of foyer - Canberra York gray granite and San Fransisco green granite - from the case of Tabcorp Holdings Ltd v Bowen Investments Pty Ltd [2009] HCA 8, (2009) 236 CLR 272. No wonder Mrs Bergamin was so shocked and dismayed.

Hurrah! Hard copy of Private Law Remedies received!

Really happy to get my copy of this excellent collection of essays, to which I contributed a chapter called ‘The Policy Behind Contract Damages: Beyond Voluntary Assumption of a Risk or Gap Filling’. Thanks to the excellent editors. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/politics-...

Awesome trip to Boston to present at Harvard for Obligations XI on “How the Institutional Revolution Shaped Common Law Remedies for Breach of Contract”. Great to see old friends and meet new ones. Now home safely.

I imagine, with little corellas, that I can see what some dinosaurs might have looked like. Weird goggle eyed little dinos.

I have written a case and comment on the recent decision of the English Court of Appeal, King Crude Carriers v Ridgebury November, in (2025) 2 CCLR 164. Abstract explains the context.

I love the way sulphur crested cockatoos are so dexterous with their claws.

View above my house was freaky.

Presented at National University of Singapore on bailment - bonus pictures of chicken crossing road, and temple across the road from our hotel.

Eastern Rosella in our garden.

‘Guilty Pigs: the weird and wonderful history of animal law’, my book with Jeremy Gans, has now been translated to Mandarin and published! www.cp.com.cn/book/2043c2b...

This was me yesterday, giving a lecture on ‘The Weird and Wonderful World of Animals and the Law’: discussion of Isbester v Knox CC, pig trials, octopus selfies, and disputed dogs.