Significant Engagements

• Preparation of expert’s reports, and the provision of expert evidence (concurrent evidence) in the Supreme Court of New South Wales relating to the alleged falsification of a company's accounts, and whether those accounts were prepared in accordance with accounting standards. The case related to the publication of a defamatory newspaper article which referred to the falsification of the accounts.
• Preparation of a series of expert’s reports, and provision of expert evidence in the Arbitrator’s hearing, for a commercial arbitration relating to a contractual pricing dispute involving WA’s major gas distributor.
• Preparation of expert’s reports for proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales concerning a claim for damages arising from breach of contract. The contract was awarded by a government entity for the design and installation of an integrated smartcard-based ticketing and fare payment system for public transport in the greater Sydney area.
• Preparation of an expert’s report to analyse and quantify interest payable pursuant to a series of loans taken out by a finance company, in anti-avoidance proceedings between that company and the Commissioner of Taxation. Provision of expert evidence in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing in this matter.
• Undertaking an investigation into an alleged invoicing fraud carried out by a Director of a horse breeding operation, and preparing an expert’s report to identify and quantify misappropriated funds for proceedings in the Supreme court of New South Wales.