Tracey Carver - School of Law

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Lecturer

B Bus(Accy) (Dist), LLB (Hons) (QUT), LLM. (Camb)
Legal Practitioner (Supreme Court of QLD)

Contact:

Room: C702 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07)313 84341
Fax: (07) 313 82121
Email: t.carver@qut.edu.au

Prior to joining the QUT Faculty of Law on a full-time basis, Tracey practised as a solicitor in commercial and real property law at the Brisbane office of Allens Arthur Robinson, Lawyers.

In 2000, Tracey was awarded a British Chevening - Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship and in 2001 completed a Master of Laws Degree at the University of Cambridge (Wolfson College), England. She is a graduate of the B Business (Accountancy) / B Laws combined degree course at QUT, where she received first class honors and a University Medal for her law studies.

Researching mainly in the area of Torts Law, Tracey has published and presented conference papers on the law of negligence, damages assessment, wrongful death, and causation. However her research interests also include the areas of health law and legal education (with particular emphasis upon teaching pedagogy and Generation Y students).

Tracey is a former editor of the QUT Law and Justice Journal and is a current member of the University’s Staff Community Welfare Fund and Peer Mentoring Steering Committees. She is a member of the Law School’s Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Committee and also coordinates the Faculty of Law’s Torts Student Peer Mentor Program.

Units Currently Taught:

Undergraduate

• LWB138 Fundamentals of Torts
• LWB139 Select Issues in Torts
• LWB240 Principles of Equity
• LWB241 Trusts

Postgraduate

• LWN087 Contemporary Issues in Torts
• LWN149 Conception Birth and Law
• LWN166 Consent to Treatment and Clinical Negligence (to be offered from semester two 2008)

Research Interests:

• Torts Law
• Health Law
• Legal Education

Select Publications and Articles:

ARTICLES

Major Refereed Articles

• T Carver, ‘Obviously Obvious: Obvious Risks, Policy and Claimant Inadvertence’ (2007) 14(1) Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 66-99 at https://elaw.murdoch.edu.au/elaw-14-1-2007.html
• T Cockburn and T Carver, ‘Online Skill Development for Generation Y Students’ (2007) 13(12) The International Journal of Learning 81-92
• T Cockburn, T Carver, M Shirley and I Davies, ‘Using E-Portfolio to Enable Equity Students to Reflect On and Document Their Skill Development’ (2007) 15 Waikato Law Review 64-77 at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00012480/
• M Shirley, I Davies, T Cockburn and T Carver, ‘The Challenge of Providing Work-Integrated Learning for Law Students – the QUT Experience’ (2006) 10 International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 134-147
• T Carver, ‘Beyond Bryan: Builders’ Liability and Pure Economic Loss’ (2005) 29(1) Melbourne University Law Review 270-297
• T Carver, ‘Through The Looking Glass: Wrongful Death, Remarriage and Australian Law Reform’ (2005) 5(1) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 1-27 at http://www.law.qut.edu.au/ljj/editions/v5n1/index.jsp

Minor Refereed Articles

• T Carver, ‘Causation and Queensland’s Civil Liability Act’ (2004) 24(4) The Queensland Lawyer 189-195

Non-refereed Articles

• T Carver, ‘Occupiers’ Liability for Diving Injuries: Dederer Revisited’ (2007) 28(3) The Queensland Lawyer 130-135
• T Carver, ‘Dederer, Diving Injuries and Occupiers’ Liability for Obvious Risks’ (2007) 27(4) The Queensland Lawyer 175-179
• T Carver, ‘Occupiers’ Liability, Inadvertence and Obvious Risks: Recent Developments” (2006) 2(10) Australian Civil Liability 129-134
• T Carver, ‘Proportionate Liability: Reviewing the “National Approach” (2005) 2(5) Australian Civil Liability 53-59
• T Carver, ‘Employers’ Liability for Workplace Stress‘ (2005) 68 Precedent 45-46
• T Carver, ‘Recovery for Lost Chances: An Update’ (2005) 25(6) The Queensland Lawyer 308-309
• T Carver, ‘Medical Negligence, Causation and Recovery for Lost Chances’ (2005) 25(5) The Queensland Lawyer 241-245
• T Carver, ‘Liability in Tort for Criminal Conduct of a Third Party’ (2005) 66 Precedent 49-50
• T Carver, ‘Vulnerability and Tortious Duties of Care’ (2005) 9 Verdict 28-30
• T Cockburn and T Carver, ‘Determining Causation Under the Civil Liability Act (Qld) 2003’ (2004) 24 Proctor 15-8
• T Carver, ‘Professional Liability for Defective Commercial Premises’ (2004) 65 Precedent 52-53
• T Carver, ‘Compensation and The Contemporary Widow’ (2004) 5 Verdict 13-15
• T Carver, ‘Evidence of Re-Partnering and Wrongful Death Law Reform in Australia’ (2003) 8(2) Association of Trial Lawyers of America International Practice Section 12-15
• T Carver, ‘Re Wife After Death: The Assessment of Damages for Wrongful Death’ (2003) 58 Plaintiff 45
• T Carver, ‘Contributory Negligence: Moore v Woodforth’ (2003) 57 Plaintiff 47-48
• T Carver, ‘Wife After Death: In the Assessment of Damages for Wrongful Death’ (2003) 56 Plaintiff 6-12
• T Carver, ‘Causation, Apportionment of Liability, and the Interplay Between Contract and Tort’ (2003) 56 Plaintiff 50-52
• T Carver, ‘Wrongful Death Damages: Discount for Remarriage Prospects – New Approach?’ (2003) 23(4) The Queensland Lawyer 103-107
• T Carver, ‘State Instrumentalities: Personal and Vicarious Liability in Tort’ (2003) 55 Plaintiff 49-50
• T Carver, ‘Misnomer of Title in Civil Proceedings’ (2003) 55 Plaintiff 50-51
• T Carver, ‘Occupier’s Liability: A Duty to Protect Patrons from the Criminal Conduct of Others’ (2002) 51 Plaintiff 48-49
• T Carver, ‘Legal Professional Privilege and Communications Between Litigants’ (2002) 50 Plaintiff 48-49

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Refereed Papers

• T Carver and T Cockburn, ‘Making Law More Accessible: Designing Collaborative Learning Environments for Physically Remote Generation Y Students’ (Paper presented at the Online Learning and Teaching Conference 2006: Learning on the Move, Brisbane, 26 September 2006) at https://olt.qut.edu.au/udf/OLTCONFERENCEPAPERS/index.cfm?fa=displayPage&rNum=3349801
• T Carver and T Cockburn, ‘Making Equity and Trusts More Accessible: Developing Interactive Learning Programmes’ (Paper presented at the Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference: Legal Knowledge – Learning, Communicating and Doing, Melbourne, 5 July 2006) at http://www.alta.edu.au/2006_published_conference_papers.html

Non-refereed Papers

• T Cockburn and T Carver, ‘Online Skill Development for Generation Y Students: A Case Study of an Online Negotiation Model for External Law Students’ (Paper presented at E-learning Symposium, Melbourne, December 2006)
• T Carver, ‘Obviously Obvious: Navigating Liability for Obvious Risks’ (Paper presented at the Australian Lawyers Alliance National Conference, Sanctuary Cove, 13-14 October 2006)
• M Shirley, I Davies, T Cockburn and T Carver, ‘The Challenge of Providing Work-Integrated Learning for Law Students – the QUT Experience’ (Paper presented at the Australian Collaborative Education Networks Conference, Gold Coast, 28 September 2006)
• T Carver, ‘Recent Developments in Pure Economic Loss: Builder’s Liability and Beyond’ (Paper presented at the Australian Plaintiff Lawyers Association National Conference, Melbourne, 21-23 October 2004)
• T Carver, ‘Preventing Bigamy in the Courtroom’ (Paper presented at the Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference: Changing Law, Brisbane, 8 July 2003)

REVIEWS

• T Carver, ‘Trusts Law by DSK Ong – Book Review’ (2004) 4(2) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 305-307