Simon Gardner
Professor of Law
Simon Gardner took a BA in law and a BCL at Oxford, then worked for a year as a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, before moving to a fellowship at Lincoln College and joining the Oxford law faculty. He has also undertaken other roles within Lincoln College (including Sub-Rector, Dean, and Tutor for Admissions) and the Oxford law faculty (including Chair of the Faculty Board, and Director of Graduate Studies responsible for the BCL and MJur programmes). He works principally in the fields of property law and criminal law, normally giving tutorials (for which he has received a Teaching Excellence Award) in Land Law, Trusts, and Criminal Law, and lectures in Land Law and Trusts. He is currently convenor of the faculty's Land Law and Trusts groups. He is an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association.
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S Gardner, '"Bleak House" Latest - Law Lords Dispel Fog? - City of London Building Society v Flegg [1988] AC 54 ' (1988) 51 Modern Law Review 365 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'A Confused Wife's Equity - E & R Distributors v Atlas Drywall (1980) 118 DLR (3d) 339' (1982) 2 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 130 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'A Detail in the Construction of Gifts to Unincorporated Associations' (1998) The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 8
S Gardner, 'A Woman's Work... - Lloyds Bank Plc v Rosset [1991] 1 AC 107' (1991) 54 Modern Law Review 126 [Case Note]
S Gardner, An Introduction to Land Law (Hart Publishing 2007)
S Gardner and E MacKenzie, An Introduction to Land Law (3rd edn, 2012)
S Gardner, An Introduction to Land Law, 2nd edition (Hart Publishing 2009) [...]
Cited in Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18, [2009] 1 WLR 776, [29] (Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe); Jones v Kernott [2011] 3 WLR 1121, [21] (Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe and Baroness Hale of Richmond)
S Gardner, An Introduction to the Law of Trusts (Oxford University Press, Clarendon Law Series 1990)
S Gardner, An Introduction to the Law of Trusts, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, Clarendon Law Series 2003)
S Gardner, An Introduction to the Law of Trusts, 3rd edition (Oxford University Press, Clarendon Law Series 2011) [...]
Cited in Independent Trustee Services Ltd v G P Noble Trustees Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 195, [82] (Lloyd LJ)
S Gardner, 'Appreciating Olugboja' (1996) 16 Legal Studies 275
S Gardner, 'Appropriation in Theft: the Last Word? - R v Gomez [1993] AC 442' (1993) 109 Law Quarterly Review 194 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Causation in Homicide - R v Cheshire [1991] 1 WLR 844' (1992) 108 Law Quarterly Review 24 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Criminal Defences by Judicial Discretion - R v Kingston [1995] 2 AC 355' (1995) 111 Law Quarterly Review 177 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Direct Action and the Defence of Necessity' [2005] May Criminal Law Review 371
S Gardner, 'Duress in Attempted Murder - R v Gotts [1001] 1 QB 660' (1991) 107 Law Quarterly Review 389 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Duress in the House of Lords - R v Gotts [1992] 2 AC 412' (1992) 108 Law Quarterly Review 349 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Equity, Estate Contracts and the Judicature Acts: Walsh v Lonsdale Revisited' (1987) 7 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 60
S Gardner, 'Family Property Today' (2008) 124 Law Quarterly Review 422
S Gardner, 'Fiduciary Powers in Toytown - Mettoy Pension Trustees Ltd v Evans [1990] 1 WLR 1587' (1991) 107 Law Quarterly Review 214 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Fin de Siècle chez Gissing v. Gissing - Midland Bank Plc v Cooke [1995] 4 All ER 562' (1996) 112 Law Quarterly Review 378 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Instrumentalism and Necessity' (1986) 6 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 431
S Gardner, 'Is Theft a Rip-Off? - Dobson v General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Plc [1990] QB 274' (1990) 10 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 441 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Joint Enterprise - R v Powell; R v English [1991] 1 AC 1' (1998) 114 Law Quarterly Review 202 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Knowing Assistance and Knowing Receipt: Taking Stock' (1996) 112 Law Quarterly Review 56
S Gardner, 'Manslaughter by Gross Negligence - R v Adomako [1995] 1 AC 171' (1995) 111 Law Quarterly Review 22 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Moment of Truth for Knowing Receipt? - Charter Plc v City Index Ltd [2008] Ch 313' (2009) 125 Law Quarterly Review 20 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Necessity's Newest Inventions - R v Conway [1989] QB 290; R v Martin [1989] 1 All ER 652; Re F (Mental Patient: Sterilization) [1990] 2 AC 1' (1991) 11 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 125 [Case Note] [...]
Cited in Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Medical Treatment) (No 1) [2001] Fam 147, 230 (Lord Justice Brooke)
S Gardner, 'New Angles on Unincorporated Associations' (1992) The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 41
S Gardner, 'Persistent Rights Appraised' in N Hopkins (ed), Modern Studies in Property Law, Vol 7 (Hart Publishing 2013) (forthcoming)
S Gardner, 'Property and Theft' [1998] Criminal Law Review 35 [...]
Cited in (i) R v Hinks [2000] 1 Cr App R 1, 10 (Lord Justice Rose); (ii) R v Hinks [2001] 2 AC 241, [4] (Lord Steyn)
S Gardner, 'Proprietary Restitution: A Coda to Chapter 8 of Birks? Unjust Enrichment' (2008) Restitution Law Review 107
S Gardner, 'Quantum in Gissing v. Gissing constructive trusts - Oxley v Hiscock [2005] Fam 211' (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 541 [Case Note] [...]
Casenote on CA decision in Oxley v Hiscock, which opens a new chapter in the law on 'family home' constructive trusts (and also says something about proprietary estoppel).
ISBN: 0023-933X
S Gardner, 'Reckless and Inconsiderate Rape' [1991] Criminal Law Review 172
S Gardner, 'Recklessness Refined - R v Reid [1992] 1 WLR 793' (1993) 109 Law Quarterly Review 21 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Reiterating the Criminal Code - Reviewing Law Commission Consultation Paper No 122, Legislating the Criminal Code - Offences Against the Person and General Principles (1992)' (1992) 55 Modern Law Review 839 [Review]
S Gardner, 'Reliance-Based Constructive Trusts' in C Mitchell (ed), Constructive and Resulting Trusts (Hart Publishing 2009) [...]
Cited in Crossco No 4 Unlimited v Jolan Ltd [2012] 2 All ER 754n, [82], [94] (Etherton LJ)
S Gardner, 'Rethinking Family Property' (1993) 109 Law Quarterly Review 263 [...]
Cited in Van Laethem v Brooker [2005] EWHC 1478 (Ch), [67] (Mr Justice Lawrence Collins)
S Gardner, 'Stalking - R v Ireland; R v Burstow [1998] AC 147' (1998) 114 Law Quarterly Review 33 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'The Codification of the Criminal Law? (with Gráinne de Búrca)' (1990) 10 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 559
S Gardner, 'The Element of Discretion' in P B H Birks (ed), Frontiers of Liability, vol 2 (Oxford University Press 1994)
S Gardner and Katharine Davidson, 'The Future of Stack v Dowden - Jones v Kernott [2010] 3 All ER 423' (2011) 127 Law Quarterly Review 13 [Case Note] [...]
Cited in Jones v Kernott [2011] 3 WLR 1121, [16], [21], [24] (Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe and Baroness Hale of Richmond)
S Gardner, 'The Importance of Majewski' (1994) 14 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 279
S Gardner, 'The Proprietary Effect of Contractual Obligations under Tulk v Moxhay and De Mattos v Gibson' (1982) 98 Law Quarterly Review 279
S Gardner, 'The Remedial Discretion in Proprietary Estoppel' (1999) 115 Law Quarterly Review 438 [...]
Cited in (i) Jennings v Rice [2002] EWCA Civ 159, [45] (Lord Justice Robert Walker); (ii) Cobbe v Yeoman?s Row Management Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 1139, [2006] 1 WLR 2964, [3], [78] (Lord Justice Mummery), [121] (Lord Justice Dyson)
S Gardner, 'The Remedial Discretion in Proprietary Estoppel - Again' (2006) 122 Law Quarterly Review 492 [...]
Cited in Powell v Benney [2007] EWCA Civ 1238, [20]-[21] (Lord Justice Peter Gibson)
ISBN: 0023-933X
S Gardner and K Davidson, 'The Supreme Court on Family Homes - Jones v Kernott' (2012) 128 Law Quarterly Review 178 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Trashing with Trollope: A Deconstruction of the Postal Rules in Contract' (1992) 12 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 170
S Gardner, 'Trusts for Sale: The Age of Consent? - Reviewing Law Commission Working Paper No 106, Trusts of Land: Overreaching (1988)' (1988) 104 Law Quarterly Review 367 [Review]
S Gardner, 'Two Maxims of Equity' (1995) Cambridge Law Journal 60
S Gardner, 'Uncontrollable Intention in Criminal Law - R v Kingston [1994] QB 81' (1994) 110 Law Quarterly Review 8 [Case Note]
S Gardner, 'Wives? Guarantees of their Husbands? Debts - Garcia v National Australia Bank Ltd (1998) 72 ALJR 1243' (1999) 115 Law Quarterly Review 1 [Case Note]
