Sally appears in all courts and tribunals, in all Australian jurisdictions, and accepts briefs in most areas of civil and commercial law. Sally has recently acted for clients including:
- Bankruptcy trustees, including in Family Court proceedings and in pursuit of cross-border asset recovery.
- Liquidators, administrators and receivers in various settings involving claims for unfair preferences, insolvent trading, winding-up, setting aside deeds of company arrangement, remuneration and other applications under the Corporations Act.
- Corporations (debtor and creditor) in the insolvency context.
- Law firms, finance providers, corporations and private individuals in debt-recovery and enforcement proceedings and actions for money had and received.
- Businesses and private individuals in construction matters including actions for breach of contract, quantum meruit and rectification.
- Regulators in proceedings for undeclared income, tax evasion, breaches of the superannuation guarantee obligations and breaches by financial services licensees.
- Commercial franchisors, lessors and tenants in contractual disputes (at common law and in statutory contexts).
- Corporations involved in disputes with former directors and employees in proceedings for breach of contract, breaches of the Australian Consumer Law and breaches of statutory and fiduciary duty, including urgent injunctive relief, final restraint and asset-preservation orders.
- Minority shareholders in oppression scenarios.
- Private individuals in proceedings against statutory authorities to compel decision-making according to law.
- Beneficiaries in contested estates, family provision claims, and constructive trust scenarios.
- Not-for-profit and charitable organisations in various settings including contractual disputes and cyber-attack / data protection scenarios.
- A Commonwealth agency in claims for negligence and intentional torts (led and unled).
- Pastoral enterprises in proceedings for breach of contract, misleading or deceptive conduct and breach of statutory duties (led and unled).
Before joining the Bar, Sally worked in private practice at a specialist international litigation firm. During her time as a disputes lawyer, Sally primarily worked on complex, high-value matters arising in a commercial or corporate insolvency context, in both domestic and offshore jurisdictions. These disputes typically involved issues such as breach of contract, professional negligence, wrongful trading, breach of statutory and/or fiduciary duty, misleading or deceptive conduct, and fraud.
Prior to her legal career Sally worked as an Intelligence Officer, including various deployments to offshore theatres of operation. These included deploying to Afghanistan with Australia’s Special Forces, where Sally was responsible for planning and executing targeting operations against the Taliban. In this regard, Sally is well versed in the practical application and effect of the Law of Armed Conflict (International Humanitarian Law) in the course of conflict involving non-State actors.
During her earlier career Sally was also deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in various specialist intelligence roles and as part of the multi-national task force searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370. Sally also served as the Honorary Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor of South Australia and as a Japanese-English interpreter at the Ministerial level (for which she holds JLPT N1 proficiency).
