Susan has over 20 years’ experience in advising and representing individuals, companies, government departments and professional services firms in a wide range of commercial disputes. She specialises in large complex commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including class actions.
Susan has, over many years, acted in litigation for government departments, including Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Department of Home Affairs, and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). This work has included regulatory matters and investigations, judicial review and tort matters including claims for misfeasance in public office and defamation.
She has acted for both plaintiffs and defendants in large class actions. This has included developing claims, book building, and obtaining funding all the way through to settling claims with Court approval. As a result of this experience Susan assists her clients with unique insights gained from acting on both sides of the record.
Susan also has extensive experience acting for professional services firms and for and against insolvency practitioners, including liquidators and receivers, in complex litigation arising out of some of the largest corporate failures in Australia.
The matters which Susan regularly runs include complex trust issues, misleading and deceptive conduct, breaches of the Corporations Act and the ASIC Act, breach of director’s duties, auditor’s negligence, breach of contract and various torts including negligence and misfeasance in public office.
As well as contested litigation, Susan is experienced in seeking judicial advice and court approval for actions by insolvency practitioners and in relation to settlement of proceedings. Susan also regularly acts in liquidator’s examinations, both for liquidators and for examinees and has significant experience acting for various parties in proceedings seeking court approval for schemes of arrangement.
Susan has expertise in managing large databases of documents including the use of technology assisted review for the production of documents. She is also skilled in preparing lay and expert evidence (including briefing and working with experts) covering a very wide range of areas as well as having extensive experience in running interlocutory and final hearings and appeals.
Susan’s recent experience includes:
