Sarah Toomey Westcott
Senior Associate
Overview
11+ years’ PQE experience
Sarah assists a range of clients in providing both commercial and personal legal services across a variety of fields including the information technology, entertainment, property and building, and tourism industries, as well as providing legal services to clients within the non-for-profit sector (including religious organisations). Sarah also has extensive litigation experience across a number of jurisdictions and has regularly appeared in the Supreme Court of NSW, Federal Court, and Administrative Appeals Tribunal in a broad range of personal and commercial disputes.
Recent Matters
– Advising major corporate clients as to their legal rights and options in circumstances where complex contractual and commercial relationships have broken down and assisting clients to negotiate practical commercial solutions.
– Instructing and assisting Senior and Junior Counsel in complex matters before the Supreme Court of NSW involving contract law, consumer law and corporations law disputes.
– Assisting prepare complex documentation to allow a client to successfully complete the off the plan sale and leasing of multi-levelled inner-city mixed-use stratum development.
– Successfully acting to secure settlements, or otherwise overturn decisions by insurers to cease or decline to pay worker’s compensation entitlements, on behalf of injured workers.
Key Expertise
– Commercial Law
– Intellectual Property
– Employment Law
– Information Technology
– General Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution
– Property Law
Memberships
– Law Society of NSW
– City of Sydney Law Society
– The Lawyers Orchestra Incorporated Secretary and Public Officer
Sarah Toomey Westcott
Senior Associate
- University of Technology, Sydney – Master of Laws (majoring in Health Law & Policy and Intellectual Property, conferred with Distinction)
- Canberra Institute of Technology – Diploma of Government
- The College of Law – Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
- The University of Sydney – Bachelor of Laws (conferred with Honours)
- The University of Sydney – Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (majoring in History and English, Honours in History)
- Sydney
- Corporate, Commercial & Business Law
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution