Law Quarter · Case Studies

Our work, on the record.

Anyone can claim results. Ours are published in the courts’ decisions and delivered to our clients every week. A selection of what we’ve done, and where you can verify it.

Claim dismissed

Supreme Court of NSW · Equity · 2023

Defending a $1m+ fraud tracing claim

Napier Keen Pty Ltd v Smith [2023] NSWSC 1134

An employer traced more than $1 million misappropriated by an employee and pursued her husband under the rule in Barnes v Addy, claiming his family home. We acted for the husband across a multi-day Supreme Court hearing.

Outcome: the claim against our client was dismissed, the Court declared the plaintiff had no interest in his home, and the caveat over his title was ordered to be withdrawn.

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Orders granted

Supreme Court of NSW · Equity Duty · 2020

Freezing $786,508 before it disappeared

Axis Medical & Rehabilitation (Astir Australia) v Tuantab [2020] NSWSC 486

Our client paid $786,508.80 for hand sanitiser at the height of COVID, and the goods never arrived. We moved ex parte before the Equity Duty Judge, filing by email on a Sunday night with a hearing the next morning.

Outcome: freezing orders granted over the defendants’ accounts and assets up to the full amount paid, preserving our client’s position while the claim proceeded.

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Appeal dismissed

NCAT Appeal Panel · 2019

Defending an operator’s electricity charging on appeal

Tork v Parklea Operations (Gateway Lifestyle) [2019] NSWCATAP 299

Home owners challenged how a residential land lease community operator charged for electricity under s 77 of the Residential (Land Lease) Communities Act 2013 (NSW). We acted for the operator before the Appeal Panel.

Outcome: the appeal against our client was dismissed and the operator’s construction of the charging provisions was upheld.

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We have acted in the leading NSW cases on utility charging in residential land lease communities, including Silva Portfolios v Reckless [2018] NSWSC 1343 in the Supreme Court and Tork v Parklea above: the decisions operators and their advisers still work from today.

In the engine room of the energy transition

Most of our best work never reaches a courtroom. It’s the contracts, regulatory strategy and negotiations that keep energy projects moving.

Client names are published only with written permission.

Clean energy procurement

Harris Farm Markets

Advising Harris Farm Markets on the negotiation of a coordinated renewable energy supply and on-site generation solution with CleanPeak Energy, a deal that represents one of the most innovative clean energy procurement arrangements in the Australian retail industry.

Result: a coordinated procurement structure across supply and on-site generation.

On-site energy

Meriton Energy

Advising Meriton Energy, the energy division of Meriton, Australia’s largest and most successful residential developer, on their on-site energy solutions and associated contractual documentation.

Result: ongoing contractual support for on-site energy across one of Australia’s biggest residential portfolios.

Battery storage

Group Energy

Advising Group Energy, the energy arm of the Borg group of companies, on the contractual documentation for the deployment of containerised battery energy storage systems at Porta Products manufacturing sites, supporting the group’s net-zero operations.

Result: executed deployment documentation across the group’s manufacturing sites.

Other examples of our work

A sample of recent matters, described without identifying details.

Commercial solar

Contract review and a full departures schedule for a minor works construction contract across a multi-megawatt, multi-site commercial rooftop portfolio: pricing risk, delay regimes and practical completion mechanics negotiated to a tender deadline.

Solar & storage

Construction, connection and supply arrangements for a multi-megawatt solar array paired with grid-scale battery storage serving a commercial precinct, including bespoke conditions precedent for staged delivery and supply-structure risk.

Embedded networks

When the regulated price benchmark changed, we renegotiated the pricing architecture of executed supply agreements for a large residential precinct, protecting the operator’s position while keeping resident pricing compliant.

Energy retail regulation

Advice for land lease community and residential park operators on lawful electricity on-charging across multiple regulatory regimes: network tariff pass-through in some states, price-cap frameworks in others.

Regulatory advocacy

Detailed submissions to government consultations on embedded network pricing reform and, with our sister consultancy Compliance Quarter, retailer authorisations, exemptions and licence variations from application to grant.

When it matters, you want lawyers whose work survives scrutiny.

Experienced lawyers backed by expert systems, getting results that were previously unattainable. That is what we offer.

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