Katie maintains a professional, common sense approach to her work and is strongly dedicated to providing her clients with the highest quality of service.
Katie is a Principal of the firm's Wills and Estates team. Her experience in the field is varied and includes acting on shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence and misconduct, defamation, employment, debt recovery, and banking matters.
She regularly advises individuals, private companies and industry associations on a broad range of issues.
Katie's estate planning practise includes advising on wills, testamentary trusts, enduring powers of attorney and appointments of enduring guardians.
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Key Specialisations
Qualifications
Community Involvement
Client Solutions
Private Client
Enduring power of attorney
Client problem
Katie's client was accused of not acting appropriately as an attorney for his father during the transfer of his father's property.
outcome achieved
Katie successfully mediated the dispute with no orders being made against her client.
Private Client
undue influence
Client problem
Katie's client was accused of unduly influencing his elderly mother into transferring her home to him among circumstances where she could not consent to the transfer. Katie's client was subsequently asked to leave the property.
outcome achieved
Katie resolved the dispute during the final hearing with orders that the client may remain in the property and receive funds to sufficient purchase suitable alternative accommodation if the need arose.
ACT Law Society
Litigation
Client problem
Kate acted in the ACAT during an appeal of a Law Society decision brought by a practitioner against a summary conclusion of a disciplinary matter by the Council.
outcome achieved
Katie was successful in achieving the Law Society's decision to be upheld by the ACAT.
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