Rosemary Tobin

Associate Professor
BA, Dip Ed Massey, LLB (Hons), MJur, PhD

Contact details
Building 803, room 310
17 Eden Crescent
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 923 7369
Email: r.tobin@auckland.ac.nz

Available to students
Open door policy or by appointment

Profile

Rosemary Tobin is an Associate Professor and Dean of Students at The University of Auckland Faculty of Law in New Zealand. She specialises in Media law, the law of Torts and issues relating to accident compensation in New Zealand.

Rosemary was one of the organisers of the Accident Compensation symposium held in the Law Faculty on 13 December 2007: "Accident Compensation: 40 Years On - A Celebration of the Woodhouse Report: Compensation for Personal Injury in New Zealand: Report of the Royal Commission on Inquiry. The symposium was to celebrate the introduction into Parliament of the Woodhouse Report that led to NZ’s accident compensation scheme. It was also a tribute the work of Sir Owen Woodhouse.

Research Interests

• Defamation
• Privacy
• Accident Compensation
• Tort
• Defective building Liability
• Limitation Issues

Courses Taught

• LAW 231 The Law of Torts
• LAWHons 721 Media Law

Recent Thesis/Dissertation Supervision Topics

• "In Defence of Fast Food Advertising"
• "Public Authorities, Third Party Victims and a duty to Prevent Criminal Acts"
• "Reality Journalism and the Protection of Privacy in Ne Zealand"
• "A Critical Analysis of Compensation for Adverse Medical Outcomes within New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Scheme"
• "The Best Interests of the Child and the Media: a look at Privacy, Consent and Name Suppression"
• "Muzzling the Watchdog? A Study of Statutory Regulation of the Print Media"
• "Paedophiles and Publication: the Criminal Profiling Procedure"
• "Privacy, the Media and the Common Law: A Comparative Experience Between England and New Zealand"
• "Issues in the new Privacy Tort"
• "The Doctrinal Basis for Trevor Ivory"
• "Genetic Testing: Privacy issues"
• "Contempt of Court and the Media"

Recent Publications

• R Tobin "Of Spies, a Ship and a Videotape - Stop, Pause, Play, Rewind, Play: Inspection and use of the Videotape of the Rainbow Warrior Court Proceedings", CLWR 37, 45 - 62. (2008)
• R Tobin "Common Law Actions on the Margin" NZ Law Rev 37 - 53, [2008]
• R Tobin "Tortious Liability for Defective Buildings Revisited" BCB 13273 - 289, (2008)
• R Tobin "Difficulties with the Time Bar: A Discussion of the Limitation defence and Actions Based on Negligence" [NZBLQ 273 - 289, 2008.
• Tobin R "Apportionment of Liability for the Loss of a Chance: Barker v Corus" (2006) 12 NZBLQ 216 - 221
• Tobin R "An Uncommon common law: Barristers’ immunity in New Zealand" (2006) 14 TLJ 224 - 232
• Tobin R & Devonshire P "Do Banks Owe a Duty of Care in Administering Mareva Injunction?" (2006) 12 NZBLQ 299 - 305.
• Schoeman E and Tobin R " The New Zealand Accident Compensation Scheme: The Statutory Bar and The Conflict of Laws" (2005) 53 American Journal of Comparative Law 493-513.
• Tobin R and Schoeman E "Asbestos, Australia and ACC [2005] NZLJ 431 - 432

Current Research

Rosemary is currently working on a book on Privacy Law in New Zealand, which she is co-editing with Stephen Penk.