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Without Prejudice

Legal- Legal Lies, October 2016 Update

This is what happened to me when I engaged solicitors Mr. Myles Walker & Mr Gavin Lai from Emerson Family Lawyers, Brisbane and Barrister Jeffery Bunning.

On separation from a 30 year marriage, my ex husband (BB) established a fraudulent business bank account with St George Bank Australia by signing as having Power of Attorney over me personally and using an unwitnessed Company Power of Attorney document. BB used our business to claim his personal expenses, submitted inaccurate end of financial year statements, allocated me wages he didn’t give me and stole thousands of dollars from our business bank account.

Because BB was reluctant to show his financial statements, I was forced to apply for subpoenas. Vital documents showing the extent of BB’s and St George Bank’s fraud were in the subpoenas.

After over a year of negotiations with my ex husband, my team of solicitors from Emerson Family Lawyers, Brisbane and Barrister Jeffery Bunning, negotiated the following for me as a divorce settlement:

to pay BB’s personal expenses from the sale of our property
to pay all BB’s business debts from the sale of the property (which I had no control of)
ignoring my personal expenses
ignoring BB’s Company fraud
ignoring BB’s theft against me
BB retains my two cars and any money he has in his pension fund (I don’t have a pension fund)
and him having 65% of the sale of our joint family property

Was this what you would call a fair settlement?

Vital documents showing the extent of BB’s and St George Bank’s fraud were deliberately withheld from me by BB, his solicitor and by my solicitors and Barrister. Was this collusion to hide BB’s and the St George Bank’s crimes?

Knowing that my solicitors had failed to produce all the evidence of BB’s fraud, I asked the owner of the firm to help, she refused, instead I was emailed a massive bill for work I had not approved.She has taken legal action against me to claim this amount.  Even when I have explained to her that her practitioners have failed in their duty and withheld vital documents and information from me which would have been beneficial with my settlement, she is still chasing me for thousands.

I am now aware that all documents when executed overseas are required to have signatures witnessed in accordance with the Government legislation. When in the UK,  I signed documents unknowing this legislation. Emerson Family Law state they deal with international law, and should be well aware of the requirements when documents are signed outside Australia.

The Legal advice I have had, is that the Company power of attorney document BB used to sell our business equipment, cars and operate our business is invalid and along with the business debts BB has incurred is criminal and civil fraud.
My solicitors and barrister should have known this and they should have told me I was not liable for his business debts. However, I was pressured into accepting them as partly my debt.

Emerson Family Lawyer’s solicitors attendance has left me without my savings and no assets, this hasn’t deterred me from exposing the truth.

BB has committed Company embezzlement, Company tax fraud, personal tax fraud, not forgetting the power of attorney fraud with the help of St George Bank a division of Westpac Group, Australia.

There are Australian Solicitors Code of Conduct rules that solicitors have to abide by, but with the range of events that have taken place with my settlement, these solicitors have ignored the rules.

Has St George Bank Australia been instrumental in this cover up of illegal conduct?

Tax fraud is tax fraud and crime is crime, however long ago it was committed- we all know this, by what has happened to others.

This statement is true to my belief and investigations and made Without Prejudice.