Emma Ward

Emma is a Senior Associate in our Litigation & Dispute Resolution team.

E: eward@cdilawyers.com.au

Emma is a Senior Associate in our Litigation & Dispute Resolution team.

As a previous ‘in-house’ senior lawyer at the Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC), Emma has valuable insight into the QBCC’s processes for dealing with defective work complaints, the statutory insurance scheme and statutory licensing procedures, including applications and disciplinary procedures.

Emma has also been involved in a range of commercial construction disputes, including security of payment disputes in Queensland and New South Wales and has recently completed her adjudicator training course in Queensland.

Emma’s experience includes:

• acting for a head contractor in resisting a claim for disputed claims regarding variation works at several prominent West End residential towers
• acting for a developer in opposing an adjudication application for disputed extension of time claims at a multi-unit development in Sydney
• acting for a head contractor in the Supreme Court of Queensland in disputing an adjudication decision on the basis of a jurisdictional error committed by the adjudicator