For valuers, planners, accountants, surveyors, engineers and lawyers

Refer a client, and know what happens next.

When a client’s land, project or business is affected by a public decision and we can act, the firm acts for your client directly and, with their consent, keeps you informed.

Refer a client How it works alongside you

When to involve the firm

The matters that usually bring a referral.

Valuers: A compensation claim where the legal and valuation evidence have to fit together: the heads of compensation, disturbance, a Valuer General determination and any objection to it.
Town planners: A refusal, deemed refusal or set of conditions your client wants to contest, a modification that may not be substantially the same development, or an appeal to the Land and Environment Court.
Accountants: Business disturbance, relocation and loss claims in an acquisition, and the records that support them.
Surveyors: Easements, access and boundary questions on a project, statutory entry, and land affected by road or infrastructure works.
Engineers and environmental consultants: An EPA or council notice your client has to answer, a contaminated site, a biodiversity or clearing question, or an approval with difficult conditions.
Architects and designers: A refusal or conditions on a design, a heritage constraint, or works that have run ahead of their approval.
Other lawyers: Acquisition, planning or environmental input on a wider matter: a defined question, or the whole of that part of the matter, without disturbing the rest of your retainer.

How it works alongside you

We take the legal question, not the relationship.

Focused scope

We take on the specific compulsory acquisition, planning, environment or land-access question, not the whole relationship.

Collaborative

We work alongside your team and existing advisers, and translate the legal position into something practical.

Defined scope and communication

The engagement should identify the legal question, communication protocol and responsibility for the broader client relationship.

What we ask before you refer

Your client's consent: Your client has agreed to you sharing their name and an outline of the matter with us. The form asks you to confirm it.
Conflicts first: Name the authority, council or other party involved, or say “Unknown”. We check for conflicts before anything about the matter is discussed.
Nothing confidential yet: A sentence or two is enough. Leave out confidential or privileged detail until we have confirmed in writing that we can act.

Refer a client

Tell us about you, and about your client.

The form sends the referral to the firm and gives you a reference. A sentence or two is enough; leave out confidential detail for now.

Fields marked with an asterisk are required.

JavaScript is off, so this form cannot send. Email enquiries@stonepillar.com.au with your name, your client’s name, the other parties and a sentence on what has happened, or call (02) 8014 5817.

You

Your name

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Your client

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Other parties

The authority, council or other party involved, or “Unknown”. Used to check for conflicts.

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What has happened

A sentence or two. Leave out confidential detail for now.

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Any date running (optional)

Telling us a date does not mean we are acting or monitoring it; until we confirm in writing that we act, it remains your client’s responsibility.

My client has agreed to me sharing their name and these details with Stone & Pillar Legal.

Confirm your client has agreed

I’ve read the collection notice and agree to Stone & Pillar Legal contacting me about this referral.

Confirm you have read the collection notice

Keep me informed, if my client agrees.

Or call (02) 8014 5817.

A referral does not create a solicitor–client relationship with you or your client. The firm acts for your client directly if it can act at all, and confirms that in writing.

We could not confirm that your referral was sent.

If a receipt from us with a reference reaches your email, it arrived and there is nothing more to do. Otherwise your referral is set out below: open it in your email and send it to enquiries@stonepillar.com.au, or copy it.

Open in your email

If your email does not open from the button, copy the referral and send it to the address above. If a date may be running for your client, call (02) 8014 5817 now.

Prefer to talk it through first?

A preliminary call can settle whether we are able to help.

Tell us who the client is, who else is involved and any date that may be running, so that conflicts and scope can be considered.

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No charge · Not legal advice

A preliminary call is a short conversation to check whether we can help, at no charge, and not legal advice. Please don't send confidential or time-sensitive material until we confirm in writing that we can act.