From:                                         James Goudkamp <james.goudkamp@law.ox.ac.uk>

Sent:                                           Thursday 30 January 2025 09:59

To:                                               David Capper; Ken Oliphant; obligations@uwo.ca

Subject:                                     RE: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

Assessment of Damages for Personal Injury and Death is one of the great works in tort law. A monumental achievement.

 

If anyone is interested in a nostalgic trip in memory of the great man, here is a link to his ‘A personal journey through the law of torts’: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/SydLawRw/2005/20.html

 

James

 

From: David Capper <D.Capper@qub.ac.uk>
Sent: 30 January 2025 09:33
To: Ken Oliphant <Ken.Oliphant@bristol.ac.uk>; obligations@uwo.ca
Subject: Re: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

I remember Harold being very welcoming to me when I came to Melbourne for the first time in 2004.  A gentleman and a scholar.

 

David

 

From: Ken Oliphant <Ken.Oliphant@bristol.ac.uk>
Sent: 30 January 2025 09:13
To: obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

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Very sad news. I was fortunate to cross paths with Harold on a few occasions and was always struck by his kindness and generosity, as well as his sometimes disquietingly probing and piercing intellect. He was a huge influence across the common law world.

 

Sympathies to his family, friends and colleagues.

 

Ken

From: Paula Giliker <Paula.Giliker@bristol.ac.uk>
Sent: 30 January 2025 09:04
To: James Lee <james.lee@kcl.ac.uk>; obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

May I echo Jamie's words.  Harold's contribution to tort law across the common law world is inestimable, but so was his support for younger scholars.

 

A great loss to the tort law world and my condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

 

Paula

 

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From: James Lee <james.lee@kcl.ac.uk>
Sent: 30 January 2025 08:50
To: obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: RE: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

May Harold rest in peace, and condolences to his many friends and colleagues. Harold was so generous with his time when I visited Melbourne early in my career. He was also a meticulous, rigorous and kind journal editor at the Torts Law Journal, especially encouraging of emerging scholars.

Warm wishes,

Jamie

 

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From: Prue Vines <p.vines@unsw.edu.au>
Sent: 30 January 2025 04:08
To: Mark Lunney <mlunney@une.edu.au>; sappideen@gmail.com; Neil Foster <neil.foster@newcastle.edu.au>; Jane Stapleton <bjs48@cam.ac.uk>; A Kumaralingam <lawka@nus.edu.sg>; Katy Barnett <k.barnett@unimelb.edu.au>; obligations@uwo.ca
Cc: Prue Vines <p.vines@unsw.edu.au>
Subject: RE: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

I feel very privileged to have known Harold and to have benefited from his guidance as well as from his written work. He held such a significant place in the development of Australian torts scholarship and  was such a good mentor to younger scholars. He really will be very sadly missed.

Prue

 

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From: Mark Lunney <mlunney@une.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2025 1:41 PM
To: Neil Foster <neil.foster@newcastle.edu.au>; Jane Stapleton <bjs48@cam.ac.uk>; A Kumaralingam <lawka@nus.edu.sg>; Katy Barnett <k.barnett@unimelb.edu.au>; obligations@uwo.ca
Subject: Re: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

Very sad news indeed. It is hard to overestimate the influence of Harold's approach to tort law on my generation of law students. Meticulous, scholarly and generous in equal measure.

 

From: Neil Foster <neil.foster@newcastle.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 1:26:41 PM
To: Jane Stapleton <bjs48@cam.ac.uk>; A Kumaralingam <lawka@nus.edu.sg>; Katy Barnett <k.barnett@unimelb.edu.au>; obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

Dear Colleagues;

This is such sad news. I echo what other colleagues have said, and especially those of us who worked with him as a co-author on the Luntz & Hambly text will miss him immensely. I have personally benefitted so much from Harold’s encouragement and mentoring, and his love for the law and attention to detail. He was indeed a giant in our field but also took the time to encourage others as well.

Regards

Neil

 

 

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From: Jane Stapleton <bjs48@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thursday, 30 January 2025 at 1:01 PM
To: A Kumaralingam <lawka@nus.edu.sg>, Katy Barnett <k.barnett@unimelb.edu.au>, obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

What a sad loss for us all. Harold was a giant in our field who was ever-ready to deploy his immense erudition to help other scholars and did so with a legendary generosity of spirit. 

From: A Kumaralingam <lawka@nus.edu.sg>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 12:54 PM
To: Katy Barnett <k.barnett@unimelb.edu.au>; obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

He was a great man, scholar, and good friend.  I will miss him.

 

From: Katy Barnett <k.barnett@unimelb.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 9:40:03 AM
To: obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Fwd: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

 

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Many of you may have come across the work of Professor Harold Luntz, AO, a valued colleague at Melbourne Law School and a giant in the field of tort law and damages. 

 

I am extremely sad to report that he passed away yesterday. May his memory be a blessing. His work will live on, but he will be missed as a generous, insightful colleague with an amazing store of knowledge and kindness.

 

Kind regards,

 

Katy

 

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Melbourne Law School

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From: Melbourne Law School Dean <law-dean@unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 30 January 2025 at 11:54:19 am AEDT
To: Melbourne Law School Dean <law-dean@unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO



Dear colleagues,

 

It is with sadness that I write to inform you that Professor Harold Luntz passed away on Wednesday 29 January.

 

Professor Luntz was a highly respected and much-loved member of the MLS community.  A global expert on torts law, from 1986 to 1988 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law. Until his retirement at the end of 2002, he held the George Paton Chair of Law. Thereafter, as an Emeritus Professor, he continued until 2008 to teach in the postgraduate program. The Harold Luntz Graduate Research Thesis Prize is named for Emeritus Professor Harold Luntz, in recognition of his many contributions to MLS.

 

Harold’s funeral is scheduled for 11am Friday January 31st (tomorrow) at MCK Cemetery, 200 Glasscocks Street, Lyndhurst.

It should also be live streamed on https://www.mck.org.au/funerals

 

I will be attending on behalf of MLS.

 

Kind regards

Michelle

 

 

Professor Michelle Foster FASSA FAAL

Dean, Melbourne Law School

William Hearn Professor of Law

The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia

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