Mandy Shircore

Contact Details

Biography

Mandy Shircore joined the Law School, Cairns Campus, in 2002 having previously practiced law for over twelve years. Mandy’s main areas of practice were in criminal law and victim compensation. She currently teaches torts, contract law and competition mooting.

In 2006, Mandy’s twenty years of voluntary involvement in the provision of legal advice, establishment and management of community legal services was recognised when she received the Toni Dick Memorial Prize for outstanding community service. She is currently the JCU Law School nominee on the management committee of the Environmental Defender’s Office of North Queensland.

Teaching Interests

• Contract Law

• Torts Law

• Mooting

• Environmental Law

Main Areas of Research

• Negligence

• Legal Education

• Human Rights and Criminal Law

Publications

Books

2008 – Mandy Shircore, Torts – Law Briefs, Pearsons Education

Journal Articles

2007 – Mandy Shircore ‘Drinking, driving and causing injury: the position of the passenger of an intoxicated driver’ (2007) 7(2) QUT Law and Justice Journal 372

2006 – Mandy Shircore and Lisa Westcott ‘The Experience of a Small Regional School in Preparing Students for a Journey through Law’ (2006) 13 JCU Law Review 81

2006 – Mandy Shircore ‘Police Liability for Negligent Investigations: When will a Duty of Care Arise?’ (2006) 11 Deakin Law Review 33.

Refereed Conference Paper

2007 – Mandy Shircore and Malcolm Barrett ‘Drink of you Dare: the Civil and Criminal consequences for the Victim of Intentional Drink Spiking’ Australian Law Teachers Association Refereed Conference Paper

Conference Presentation

July, 2005 - Lisa Westcott and Mandy Shircore, Conference Presentation at the Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference in New Zealand, paper entitled "Best Teaching Practices in First Year Law Subjects: the Integration of Skills into the First Year Program of a Small Regional Law School.”