CURRICULUM VITAE

Sandra Rew

[email protected]

EDUCATION

Secondary

• The Forest High School, French's Forest. Sydney Australia

Tertiary

• Bachelor of Economics, Dip Education (Syd Univ)
• Bachelor of Laws (NTU)
• College of Law, St Leonards
• Distinction awarded for Continuing Practical Legal Training.

Awards

• The Ombudsman's Prize in Legal History (1996)

EMPLOYMENT

• Admitted February 1997. Solicitor on the Roll: Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia.

• May 2000- Eligible to act as a Sole Practitioner or Partner upon payment of fees and professional indemnity insurance.

December 1999 to June 2000
Litigation and General Practice Solicitor
Williams Woolf & Zuur, Lawyers
19 Pacific Parade
Dee Why NSW 2099 (reference available)
Ph: (02) 9981 1399    Fax: (02) 9982 1849

• Workers Compensation
• Motor Vehicle Third Party
• Common Law Personal Injury Slip and Fall
• Victims Compensation Claims
• Local Court Debt Recovery
• Credit Code - drafting Default Notice
• Contract for Sale and Purchase of Land
• Dividing Fences disputes
• Leases
• Sale of Business
• Advice on Easements
• Drafting Disclosure Statements
• Apprehended Violence Orders
• Criminal Matters - PCA and Assault
• Mortgages - acting for Mortgagor; Independent Advice
• Wills
• Probate and Administration of Estates
• Family Law - Financial Orders
• Advising on Applications to the Guardianship Tribunal for Financial Management

February 1998 to November 1999
CBD Sole Practice, Litigation Solicitor
McGirr James Hall & Associates, Solicitors
Level 4, Rugby House, Rugby Place
Sydney   NSW
DX: 253 SYDNEY    (Reference Available)
Ph: (02) 9247 7471   Fax: (02) 9251 2414

• daily conduct of Plaintiff Personal Injury matters including taking instruction, briefing counsel, liasing with insurer/ defendant's solicitors, attendance at conferences, settlement conferences and hearings through to completion of matter.
  
• conduct of Downing Centre Local Court matters: debt recovery, fraudulent misrepresentation, dishonoured cheques.
  
• conduct of District Court matters: Personal Injury, Debt recovery.
  
• assisting with Supreme Court and Court of Appeal matters: Directions hearings, Appeal Books, Agency appearances.
  
• preparation of court documents for complicated aspects of Probate matters e.g. Citation to See Proceedings, Proving Will, Testamentary Incapacity, Family Provisions Act.
  
• bankruptcy proceedings: Bankruptcy Notice, Federal Court proceedings
• Workers Compensation Claims: letter claim, application to WCRS, hearing, commutation hearing
• Suitors Fund application
• Research for Principal and preparation of submissions for hearings.
• High Court: Respondent in Application for Special Leave to Appeal.

September 1996 - July 1997
Spooner & Hall Solicitors
36 Sydney Road
Manly NSW
Ph: (02) 9977 7177  reference available

Spooner & Hall publish the annual Mentions List distributed to all firms and chambers in N.S.W. The firm is listed as agents for Manly Local Court. Responsibilities included taking instruction from agency clients, court appearances and attendance at pre-trial reviews, examination of Judgment Debtors and conduct of settlement negotiations on behalf of agency clients.

Duties performed in general practice included:

• taking instruction from clients; preparation of applications for legal aid;
• background research to assist principal with advice to clients
• preparation of briefs to counsel; preparation of Lists of Documents and Medical reports; preparation of statements associated with personal injury/workers compensation matters;
• preparation of Contracts of Sale and associated searches, exchange and settlement; Family Law contact and property applications; negotiations for interim and final orders; attendance at Family Court; preparation of application for step-parent adoption; instructing solicitor in Supreme Court and Compensation Court.
• attendance upon elderly clients in their home to facilitate estate matters; Discovery; Chronologies;

July 1996 - September 1996
Forsters Solicitors
42 Belgrave Street
Manly NSW
Ph: (02) 9977 4655

Prior to the position with Spooner & Hall, I undertook three months work experience with Forster' s Solicitors, Manly. During this period I was successful on behalf of a client in an application for Unfair Dismissal before the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (NSW Police Service were the respondents). Forsters specialised in commercial and Family Law matters.

Please click on the above "E-Mail" link to contact me.