Jacqui is a graduate of the University of Western Sydney and currently holds both a Bachelor of Business, Management (B.Bus) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB). Jacqui joined our firm in 2007 as an undergraduate law student as part of our annual summer clerkship program and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court in August 2008.
Jacqui has been involved in LEAPS (Lawyers Encouraging and Assisting Promising Students), a mentoring program for "at risk" school students in Western Sydney.
Recently, Jacqui was the pilot for an external internship program with ANZ Business Banking. The program is designed to facilitate a knowledge sharing forum between the ANZ Bank and junior professionals such as lawyers and accountants. During the program Jacqui worked with ANZ staff in a variety of departments including in-house legal, portfolio management, credit management, customer relations and finance markets.
Internally, Jacqui has been involved in the structuring of the firm's summer clerkship programs for 2008 and 2009. .
Jacqui has worked within the firm's Dispute Resolution and Litigation team since completing the clerkship programme in early 2007. Jacqui has been involved in a wide range of commercial matters whilst working in the team. These matters have ranged across a broad range of areas such as Environmental and Planning Law, Building and Construction, Trade Practices and Corporations law, with a particular interest in the external administration under the Corporations Act.
Her recent work has included:
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An appeal in the Land and Environment Court against a local council decision to deny a development application for land zoned 1a Rural, and a related appeal against a local council order for the demolition of structures that had been built without development consent.;
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Providing advice to an Australian subsidiary of a multinational food processing and packaging company on the potential claims and liabilities under the Contaminated Land Management Act;
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Providing advice to an individual for a potential negligence claim against a local council in its role as an information provider to the public;
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Advising an owner builder on a defective work claim made by a purchaser under the Home Building Act Facilitating the settlement of the matter to avoid the continuance of proceedings that had been commenced in the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal;
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Providing advice to a principal on the failure to serve a payment schedule in response to a payment claim made by a contractor pursuant to the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act;
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Advising a home owner in a home building dispute revolving around claims of non-completion, the need for rectification works and disagreement on the amount due under the contract accordingly;
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Providing advice to a home owner seeking relief from payment under a residential building contract due to the gross delay in performance by the contractor;
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Advising a company director who had been summonsed by a liquidator for the purpose of investigating alleged preference payments;
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Negotiating settlement for a company in which winding up proceedings had been commenced by an insurance company;
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Providing advice to a company seeking to recover goods pursuant to retention of title clause, after the process of liquidation had begun. Subsequently negotiated a settlement between the company and the liquidator;
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Providing advice to a liquidator on issues surrounding:
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the liquidation of a company's primary asset, a piece of land. There were a number of interested parties to consider during the liquidation as the director had died intestate a number of years ago;
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the possible reinstatement of a related company for the purpose of liquidation and consolidating two parcels of land to be sold as one.
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Providing advice to an Australian subsidiary of an international manufacturer of kitchen hardware on the prohibition of exclusive dealings under the Trade Practices Act;
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Representing a contractor that had undertaken landscape works on the basis of a partly written and partly oral contract, with a number of oral variations. Successfully negotiated settlement to allow the client's recovery of a substantial amount of the debt and legal fees; and
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Defending a claim by lenders seeking to enforce guarantees against the directors of a company.
