Stacy Heath

Professional Biography

Stacy is an Associate with Results Legal Solutions and specialises in commercial litigation, debt recovery and corporate and personal insolvency. Stacy has completed a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours), a Bachelor of Arts and completed her Master of Laws at the Queensland University of Technology, and is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Queensland and High Court of Australia.

Prior to her admission as a solicitor, Stacy worked as a Legal Officer at the Federal Attorney-General's Department in Canberra, providing assistance to those persons appearing before the Royal Commissions into HIH and the building and construction industry.

Since her admission, Stacy has practiced exclusively in the areas of commercial litigation, insolvency and dispute resolution.

Experience

Areas of expertise

  • Contractual disputes.
  • Trades practices litigation.
  • Shareholders and partnership disputes.
  • Professional negligence claims.
  • Corporate insolvency (winding up, voluntary administrations and receiverships).
  • Corporate governance.
  • Personal insolvency (bankruptcy).
  • Enforcement of securities (mortgages, charges and guarantees).
  • Building disputes.
  • Franchise and commercial agreement disputes.

Recent matters and transactions

  • Acting on behalf of the director and related entities of a collapsed Queensland construction company and advising in relation to personal insolvency and liquidation of assets.
  • Acting for directors and shareholders in respect of shareholders disputes and breaches of fiduciary duties claim.
  • Acting on behalf of a hotel landlord in recovery of possession of premises and advising in respect of entitlements to gaming machine operating authorities pursuant to the Gaming Machine Act 1991.
  • Acting for creditors, directors and insolvency practitioners in recovery proceedings during insolvency administrations, unfair preference claims and insolvent trading actions.
  • Securing debt payments, enforcing caveats, mortgages, charges.
  • Insolvency advice to creditors, debtors and insolvency practitioners.
  • Acting for creditors, (including supporting creditors) in contested winding up proceedings and contested creditors petitions.
  • Acting for companies opposing winding up proceedings and individuals opposing creditors petitions.
  • Advising clients in relation to professional negligence claims.
  • Acting for national transport company in areas of debt recovery and commercial litigation.
  • Acting for clients in the building and construction industry including appearing before the Commercial and Consumer Tribunal, advising in relation to contracts, disputes and claims made pursuant to the Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004.

Contact Stacy by email at slheath@resultslegal.com.au or by telephone on (07) 3234 3200.