The SCL Australia Brooking Prize

Announcement of 2010 Prize

The following sets out the results of the judging of the 2010 Brooking Prize as announced by The Honourable Robert Brooking AO QC at the Society’s inaugural conference in Perth on 19 June 2010.

The Society thanks everyone who submitted an entry for this year’s Prize and congratulates all recipients of a prize or commendation.

Information about the 2011 Prize will appear on this website in due course. 

Award

Author

Location

Title of paper

FIRST PRIZE

Trevor Thomas

Melbourne

 

Alliancing Contracts and Fiduciary Duties: Trust and Confidence in Relationship Contracting

SECOND PRIZE

David Ulbrick

Melbourne

 

No Dispute – testing the wisdom of Abrahamson

Highly Commended

Moshe Ross

Melbourne

 

The Status of the Prevention Principle

Highly Commended

Justin O’Callaghan

Brisbane

 

Syndicating Performance Risk in Major Projects

Commended

Wayne Jocic

Melbourne

 

Scholarship in Australian Construction Law

Commended

Romauld Andrew

Melbourne

 

Fabrication of Unjust Enrichment

Commended

Sean McCarthy

Canberra

 

Ethics in Construction

Commended

Teena Zhang

Melbourne

 

Rethinking Risk: Government Support for Debt Financing in PPPs Post GFC

Commended (student division)

Phebe Mann

Buckingham, UK

 

US Copyright Law in the Protection of intellectual Property Rights and Interests of Architects and Engineers

 

 

 

Information on the 2010 Prize (entries closed 31 March 2010)

1st Prize – $4,000

2nd Prize – $2,000

Student prize – $1,000

(Commendations may also be awarded)

All entrants awarded a prize or commendation will, in addition, be granted complimentary membership of the Society for one year.

The Brooking Prize is named for The Hon Robert Brooking AO QC in recognition of his Honour’s pioneering contribution to the study and practice of construction law in Australia. It is based upon the Hudson Prize offered annually by the Society of Construction Law (UK) (see www.scl.org.uk/hudson-prize).

The subject matter for entries should be related to Construction Law. For example, topics may include: Construction & Engineering Contracts; Dispute Resolution / Avoidance; any aspect in relation to Construction Law of: Adjudication, Arbitration; Litigation; Company Law; Taxation; Torts.

The Society invites entries from all disciplines and levels of experience.  Entries within the general and student divisions will be judged separately.

The Judging Panel will allocate marks as follows:

  • 50% - ‘Originality of thought or approach and contribution to the study or practice of construction law or its applications in the industry’.
  • 40% - ‘Quality of analysis, explanation and discussion of chosen topic’.  Considerable weight is given to the freshness of ideas and the value of the work.
  • 10% - ‘Clarity of presentation, grammar, spelling, punctuation and any referencing’.  Entries are to conform to the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (available at http://mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/files/aglcdl.pdf).

NB: Entries must be original, ie, not previously published elsewhere. The Society reserves the right to publish any entries in hard copy and/or on its website, with copyright being held jointly by the author and the Society.  The Society will not unreasonably refuse publication elsewhere of any entry provided that a note acknowledging the paper’s original submission to (and, if applicable, publication by) the Society in respect of the Brooking Prize is included in such publication.

Entries are to be:

  • Not more than 5000 words (Note: While footnoting or other method of referencing sources does not count towards this total and is encouraged, footnoting is not to be used for substantive text.)
  • Identifiable by essay title only: It is important that the author’s name or company name does not appear anywhere on the paper itself!
  • Accompanied by a covering letter:
    • showing the title of entry, author’s name, daytime telephone number and email address;
    • confirming that the author accepts the terms set out in this invitation; and 
    • indicating whether the essay is submitted in the general or student division (entrants in the student division must be currently-enrolled students and are to provide the name of their institution and student number). 

The Society retains absolute discretion as to whether to award a prize in any category.

Joint entries (no more than two authors) will be accepted but joint authors are to share any prize awarded.

Entries must be received by 31 March 2010, by email to the Secretary at Rashda.Rana@lendlease.com.au. Late entries will not be forwarded to the judges. The Society intends to announce the prize winners at its annual dinner in June 2010 in Perth.

These rules are to be posted on www.scl.org.au and may be altered at any time by the Society.

Please direct any queries to the Chair of the Academic Subcommittee, Matthew Bell, m.bell@unimelb.edu.au.