Tort Liability for Psychiatric Damage: The Law of ‘Nervous Shock’ (1993) (co-author with Dr Peter Handford). Foreword by The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Bingham.
This work has been categorised as “one of the most widely reviewed legal monographs ever published”. It has been cited extensively in the literature and analysed by law reform agencies and courts throughout the world including the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal.
The Law Commission has referred to the book as a “meticulously researched” work from which it derived “great help”. Reviewers have called it “a work of impressive scholarship at once indispensable to the practitioner” (the late Prof. John Fleming), a work of “impeccable” scholarship and a “magnificent compendium of material, unrivalled in its coverage and presentation” (Tony Weir) and a “superb treatment of the subject” (The Hon. Justice Allen Linden). It has been said that “this is a work that no law library should be without. Nor should any practitioner whose practice includes, or could include, cases of this type” (Prof. Gerald Fridman).
Torts in the Nineties (1997) (editor). Foreword by The Hon. Sir Gerard Brennan AC, KBE.
Torts Tomorrow: A Tribute to John Fleming (1998) (co-editor with The Hon. Justice Allen Linden). Foreword by The Hon. Anthony Murray Gleeson AC.
Mullany & Handford’s Tort Liability for Psychiatric Damage (2nd ed, 2006) (by Dr Peter Handford). Foreword by The Right Hon. Lord Bingham of Cornhill KG.
Nicholas has published numerous articles, comments and notes in various international legal journals including the Law Quarterly Review, the Modern Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, the University of New South Wales Law Journal and the Melbourne University Law Review.
His scholarship has been referred to by numerous appellate courts including the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the High Court of Australia, the New Zealand Court of Appeal, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia and the Courts of Appeal of New South Wales, Queensland, Ontario, British Columbia and, most recently, Singapore.