• Federal Court of Australia - Expert Evidence Practice Note, including Annexure A: Harmonised Expert Witness Code of Conduct and Annexure B: Concurrent Expert Evidence Guidelines
• Federal Circuit Court of Australia Chapter 7 [Experts and Assessors] of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021
• Links to important and regularly used federal legislation in forensic accounting matters:
  • Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
  • Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)
  • Section 51 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1901 provides context for why there is a federal and state court system in Australia. 

• High Court of New Zealand – Schedule 4 Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses of the High Court Rules 2016

Australian Capital Territory

• Supreme Court of Australian Capital Territory – Part 2.12 Expert Evidence of the Court Procedures Rules 2006

New South Wales

• Supreme Court of New South Wales - Schedule 7 - Expert witness code of conduct in the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
• Land and Environment Court of New South Wales 
  • Division 2 of Part 31 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
  • Land and Environment Court Class 3 Compensation Claims Practice Note
  • Land and Environment Court Conference of Expert Witnesses Policy (see all Policies)
  • Land and Environment Court Joint Expert Reports Policy (see all Policies).
• Links to important and regularly used NSW legislation in forensic accounting matters:
  • Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 (NSW)

Northern Territory

• Supreme Court of Northern Territory - Code of Conduct set out in Practice Direction No 6. of 2015 dated 11 September 2015

Queensland

• Supreme Court of Queensland - Chapter 11, Part 5 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999
• Land Court of Queensland – Expert evidence in the Land Court
• Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Practice Direction 2009/4 Expert Evidence and Guide to Expert Conferences.

South Australia

• The current rules are contained in the Uniform Civil Rules 2020 – Part 14 – Expert reports 

Tasmania

• Supreme Court of Tasmania - Practice Direction 1 of 2016 – Expert Witness Code of Conduct
• Tasmanian Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Practice Direction 1 - Expert Witness Code of Conduct

Victoria

• Supreme Court of Victoria - Expert Witness Code of Conduct contained in Form 44A of the Supreme Court (Chapter I Expert Witness Code Amendment) Rules 2016
• Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal - Practice note - PNVCAT2 - Expert evidence
• County Court of Victoria - Expert Evidence Order 44 of the County Court Civil Procedure Rules 2018
  
   

• Supreme Court of Western Australia - experts are referred to the Federal Court Practice Note (GPN-EXPT)
• District Court – Civil Practice Directions and Circulars

 

Natasha is chair of the Forensic Accounting committee.  As a CA ANZ accredited Forensic Accounting Specialist and Business Valuation Specialist, Natasha helps lawyers get to the crux of financial issues in disputes, particularly in commercial litigation, insurance, family law and estate matters. Natasha provides expert witness and consulting expert services, including the preparation of expert reports, and is the founder and director of Crux Forensic.

Natasha regularly provides training and presentations to solicitors, accountants and other professionals on a range of accounting, forensic accounting, business valuation and assessment of damages topics, and was a guest lecturer in the forensic accounting courses at the Queensland University of Technology from 2018 to 2024.

Natasha has 25 years' experience in the accounting industry, with the past 17 years specialising in forensic accounting, litigation support services and business valuation. Prior to this, she practiced in taxation and business services. Natasha was the winner of the Australian Accounting Awards Accounting Consultant of the Year in 2021 and 2022.

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Adam began focusing on forensic accounting work full time since in 2000, after initially working in tax and personal injury litigation.  His early career as a full-time forensic accountant included working in the United Kingdom as an in-house forensic accountant for a government department and then in Ernst & Young.  Upon returning to Australia in 2006, Adam spent time working for a number of litigation consulting divisions within large firms before deciding to set up and build his own public accounting practice, called Acuity Forensic.

Adam looks forward to promoting the Forensic Accounting Specialisation to the legal market who have their own accredited specialists in different areas of law as they will see significant value in CA ANZ’s recognition of Forensic Accounting Specialists.

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Bill is a chartered accountant with twenty-nine years of post-professional qualification experience and over twenty-six years of experience of practicing corporate finance. Bill is accredited by Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand as both a Business Valuation Specialist and a Forensic Accounting Specialist.

Bill undertakes business and share valuations, transaction advisory services, financial investigations and economic loss assessments and has provided evidence in matters proceeding before the Federal Court of Australia, the High Court of New Zealand, the District Court, Family Court and various tribunals (including the Customs Appeal Authority and Land Valuation Tribunal) as well as in other dispute resolution forums, such as arbitration and mediation.

Bill has sector experience in:

• Telecommunications
• Primary sector
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• FMCG

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Clive has been a Chartered Accountant for over 31 years.  His roles have included being an Investigating Accountant at Inland Revenue and a Forensic Accountant at the NZ Serious Fraud Office.

Clive is accredited by CA ANZ as a CA Forensic Accounting Specialist.  He has given expert accounting evidence on many occasions in the Courts of New Zealand, Hong Kong, Fiji and the Cook Islands.  These trials included the largest case of public official corruption in New Zealand history.

Clive has delivered training and keynote addresses to CA ANZ special interest groups, Conferences, University students and APEC.

At the Serious Fraud Office Clive leads the Forensic Accounting discipline of eleven staff.

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George has practised exclusively as a Forensic Accountant at Nexia Edwards Marshall in Adelaide, South Australia since 2008 and was promoted to Partner in 2021 and head of the firm’s Forensic Accounting division in 2025.

George specialises in the provision of:

• Forensic Accounting Services as an Expert Witness for Court and as a Consulting Expert for litigation / dispute support
• Valuation Services for litigation / disputes, matrimonial property settlements, and commercial purposes
• Commercial and corporate advisory and consulting.

George has developed broad professional and commercial experience and expertise in multiple areas, including:

• economic loss assessments
• expert accounting opinions and financial investigations
• business and equity interest valuations
• matrimonial property settlements
• financial modelling
• fraud investigations and payroll reviews
• due diligence.

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