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Area and Emphasis of Practice
Sarah assists a range of clients in providing both commercial and personal legal services across a variety of fields including the information technology, entertainment, property and building, and tourism industries, as well as providing legal services to clients within the non-for-profit sector (including religious organisations). Sarah also has extensive litigation experience across a number of jurisdictions, and has regularly appeared in the Supreme Court of NSW, Federal Court and Administrative Appeals Tribunal in a broad range of personal and commercial disputes.
Sarah assists a range of clients in providing both commercial and personal legal services across a variety of fields including the information technology, entertainment, property and building, and tourism industries, as well as providing legal services to clients within the non-for-profit sector (including religious organisations). Sarah also has extensive litigation experience across a number of jurisdictions, and has regularly appeared in the Supreme Court of NSW, Federal Court and Administrative Appeals Tribunal in a broad range of personal and commercial disputes.
Recent Matters
- Advising major corporate clients as to their legal rights and options in circumstances where complex contractual and commercial relationships have broken down, and assisting clients to negotiate practical commercial solutions
- Instructing and assisting Senior and Junior Counsel in complex matters before the Supreme Court of NSW involving contract law, consumer law and corporations law disputes
- Assisting prepare complex documentation to allow a client to successfully complete the off the plan sale and leasing of multi-levelled inner city mixed use stratum development
- Successfully acting to secure settlements, or otherwise overturn decisions by insurers to cease or decline to pay worker’s compensation entitlements, on behalf of injured workers
Education
- University of Technology, Sydney - Master of Laws (majoring in Health Law & Policy and Intellectual Property, conferred with Distinction)
- Canberra Institute of Technology - Diploma of Government
- The College of Law - Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
- The University of Sydney - Bachelor of Laws (conferred with Honours)
- The University of Sydney - Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (majoring in History and English, Honours in History)
Memberships
- Law Society of NSW
- City of Sydney Law Society
- The Lawyers Orchestra Incorporated Secretary and Public Officer
E-mail: swestcott@bradscott.com.au | Phone: +61 02 9233 7299 | Fax: +61 2 9235 3965
