The legal threats and demands from Baker & McKenzie in relation to this site
Sadly, there has been a litany of threats and intimidation emanating from within the Law Society of NSW, which has seen letters threatening court action, an army colleague of the then president of the Law Society making a clandestine visit to my employer’s office with the directive that my employment be terminated, and even two detectives turning up on my front door due to my writing to the Legal Services Commissioner regarding his own concealing of criminality.
The latest act of intimidation is another letter from Baker & McKenzie, advising that the statements on this site are ‘false, malicious, and highly defamatory‘, and that they had been instructed to commence proceedings and seek urgent interlocutory orders. As can be seen below, a letter was written to Baker & McKenzie advising of their non-compliance with the Defamation Act 2005, and also advising of the corrupt nature of their clients. Predictably, everyone has fallen silent.
See below the letters from Baker & McKenzie bearing their wild threats (while non-legally compliant), and the responses highlighting further corrupt activity, including within that firm.
Anthony Foley
Anthony Foley who has overseen the intimidatory tactics in relation to the Law Society cover up and this website.
Andrew Stewart
Andrew Stewart the author of four letters issuing various threats and demands in order to harrass and bring about silence.
Paul Forbes
Paul Forbes who also issued threats as far back as February 2017 in an attempt to cover up corrupt conduct at the Law Society.
Excerpt of letter to Paul Forbes of 30 August 2022
“As you are quite aware, Baker McKenzie wrote to me on 2 December 2021 making the allegations that my ‘false, defamatory’, and indeed ‘highly defamatory’, statements gave rise to the imputations that your clients were partaking in corrupt conduct. However, and as you are equally aware, all claims as made by myself were, and remain, true and factual.
Now, and of course, it would be apparent to a person with talents less than your own, that if my statements are true, then the imputations that arise are true also.“
Excerpt of letter to Andrew Stewart of 3 December 2021
“In your letter to me of yesterday, you stated that my claims were false, defamatory, and malicious. Now that you have had time to read all the information as sent to you, can you please set out clearly and plainly any false claim made on my part.“
Mr Stewart is yet to provide evidence or particular of any claim made (as at [current_date format=’l, j F Y’]).
Friday, 3rd December 2021
Mr Andrew Stewart
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
Tower One – International Towers Sydney
Level 46, 100 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo NSW 2000
Dear Mr Stewart
Re: Law Society of NSW and Ms Juliana Warner
I refer to the above and to your letter to me of yesterday.
As you know, I this morning forwarded six E-mails to you, which were originally sent to Paul Forbes of your firm between 1st December and 2nd December 2021, being quite obviously yesterday and the day before.
You will indeed have had time to digest the contents of those E-mails, and more importantly, the attachments to all six of the communications as sent to you. At present, the E-mail as sent at 10.23am has been read six times, the E-mail sent at 10.30am has been read three times, the E-mail of 10.33am six times, the E-mail of 10.41am three times, the E-mail of 10.54am three times, and the E-mail of 10.58am has been read six times.
Given your due attention to the said E-mails, you will now see quite clearly that every single claim that I have made has been not only substantially true, but has been entirely accurate. If such claims had not been true, I would not have written them.
In your letter to me of yesterday, you stated that my claims were false, defamatory, and malicious. Now that you have had time to read all the information as sent to you, can you please set out clearly and plainly any false claim made on my part.
I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully
Tuesday, 7th December 2021
Mr Andrew Stewart
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
Tower One – International Towers Sydney
Level 46, 100 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo NSW 2000
Dear Mr Stewart
Re: Law Society of NSW and Ms Juliana Warner
I refer to the above, and write as an addendum to the further particulars notice as sent to you on 3rd December 2021 (by E-mail at 3.58pm).
In your letter of 2nd December 2021, you make the claim that I have harassed current and former employees of the Law Society of NSW. I deny this allegation as made by both yourself and your clients.
Can you please, at your earliest convenience, provide the evidence you have to hand to substantiate your claim that I have harassed current and former employees of the Law Society of NSW, as such was not included in your letter*.
In relation to any harassment that has in fact taken place, I refer you specifically to my letter to your client, Juliana Warner, of 12th November 2021. As can be seen, it is not your clients who have been harassed.
I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully
* Letter of 2nd December 2021 was devoid of any attachment, and no evidence supplied for any claim.
Tuesday, 7th December 2021
Mr Andrew Stewart
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
Tower One – International Towers Sydney
Level 46, 100 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo NSW 2000
Dear Mr Stewart
Re: Law Society of NSW and Ms Juliana Warner
I refer once more to the above.
In your letter of 2nd December 2021, you state that claims as made by me are ‘false, malicious and highly defamatory’. As we have seen, all claims as made by myself in relation to your clients’ conduct are factual and sound.
Your allegations against me were made while you had no evidence or documentation to hand. It is obvious that you accepted hearsay evidence when issuing legal threats, while also stating that you had received instructions to commence urgent Court proceedings against me without any further notice to myself.
Additionally, you claim that my ‘highly defamatory’ statements give rise to a large number of imputations. Given that my statements are indeed true and accurate, it therefore follows that the imputations you claim arise are true also.
Do you wish to provide comment?
Yours faithfully
Wednesday, 8th December 2021
Mr Andrew Stewart
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
Tower One – International Towers Sydney
Level 46, 100 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo NSW 2000
Dear Mr Stewart
Re: Law Society of NSW and Ms Juliana Warner
What I have learned from this entire debacle is that Baker & McKenzie is willing to protect those carrying out corrupt acts, and, quite obviously, is accepting payment to do so.
It is little wonder you remain silent.
Yours faithfully
Excerpt of letter from Andrew Stewart of 20 December 2021
“If you fail to take the content of the Warner Website down on a permanent basis, we are instructed to commence proceedings without further notice.“
This, the Warner Website, remains published, and proceedings remain uncommenced (as at [current_date format=’l, j F Y’]).
Excerpt of letter to Andrew Stewart of 21 December 2021
“In truth, your seeking the removal of the content of a website is not only because it is embarrassing to your clients, but because such also draws attention to the conduct of Baker McKenzie, who has along with the Law Society attempted to cover up the criminal conduct of Terence Goldberg and also attempted to harass a member of the public for bringing such to the attention of a wider audience.“
Tuesday, 21st December 2021
Mr Andrew Stewart
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
Tower One – International Towers Sydney
Level 46, 100 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo NSW 2000
Dear Mr Stewart
Re: Law Society of NSW and Ms Juliana Warner
Having had a little more time to digest the contents of your letter to me of yesterday, all I can say is that your behaviour is deeply unprofessional, if not utterly scurrilous.
As in your letter of 2nd December 2021, you once again claim that I have defamed your clients (among others), however, you refuse to particularise or explain any part of those allegations. In your letter of yesterday, you go further and state that I have also been misleading and deceptive in my actions, yet, and again, you offer no real explanation for these claims. Your allegations are untrue and are offensive, and you write such knowing same to be false.
In the opening paragraphs of your letter, you suggest, and without the merest hint of irony, that I bring the conduct of Terence Goldberg to the attention of the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner and also to the NSW Police. You make this statement in the full knowledge that I already did so, with the Law Society ultimately dismissing all complaints as made against Mr Goldberg, while providing false statements in doing so.
You are also aware that the NSW Police informed me that the Law Society of NSW declined to cooperate during the investigation into Terence Goldberg’s activities (in a meeting with the NSW Police on 19th October 2015), and you are aware also of John McKenzie having provided false statements to the NSW Police during that same investigation.
You and your firm have been provided with all Court documentation which confirms that Terence Goldberg acted for four plaintiffs in Supreme Court proceedings, with Terence Goldberg then going on to provide false statements to the Court to seek his costs from a party for whom he did not act (the sixth defendant in the matter, and therefore being an opposing party), before entering into a conspiracy to commit further fraud and also into a money laundering scheme with moneys as fraudulently obtained in the first instance.
Despite you being fully cognisant of both the criminality involved and the cover up that is taking place, you state that your clients, being the Law Society of NSW and the president of such, will not respond to any further correspondence on the matter. Both you and your clients are making a distinct mockery of the law and its processes.
In your letter of 2nd December 2021, you speak of the duties of the President of the Law Society of NSW and of the Law Society itself, however, it appears you are now stating that no such duties actually exist. You would be aware that your statements are contradictory, if not fully dichotomous in their content.
You go on to claim in your letter of yesterday that the redirection of a URL to a website which highlights Terence Goldberg’s criminal conduct is likely to mislead or deceive consumers seeking the services of Turner Freeman, and may be a breach of Australian Consumer Law. Quite frankly, I have never before heard anything so ridiculous.
Also in your letter of yesterday, you go on to make the same threat as you made in your previous letter, in that your clients will commence proceedings against me without further notice to myself, and yet you do not state or particularise the actual grounds for so doing.
As previously requested of you now on numerous occasions, please provide to me without any further delay the particulars of any untrue statement as made by myself, or indeed where I have made any defamatory statement or any statement on my part with an intent to mislead or deceive, or in fact where I have broken any Australian law. You have made your claims, and you need to substantiate your claims. You are a legal professional, after all.
In truth, your seeking the removal of the content of a website is not only because it is embarrassing to your clients, but because such also draws attention to the conduct of Baker & McKenzie, who has along with the Law Society attempted to cover up the criminal conduct of Terence Goldberg and also attempted to harass a member of the public for bringing such to the attention of a wider audience.
Perhaps also I need to remind you that first and foremost your duty to any client is secondary to your duty to the Court, and you are indeed alert to the fact that the Honourable Court has been misled for the purposes of improper financial gain.
Your conduct is unethical to say the least, and it appears you have lost your moral compass as well as having thrown off the shackles of your professional obligations.
Yours faithfully
Excerpt of letter to Andrew Stewart of 21 December 2021
“In your letter of 2 December 2021, you speak of the duties of the President of the Law Society of NSW and of the Law Society itself, however, it appears you are now stating that no such duties actually exist. You would be aware that your statements are contradictory, if not fully dichotomous in their content.“
As above, Mr Stewart is yet to provide comment or response (as at [current_date format=’l, j F Y’]).
Excerpt of letter to Andrew Stewart of 8 January 2022
“On re-reading your letters of 2 December, 20 December, and 24 December 2021, it is of note that despite your repeated rhetoric and claims of the defamation of your clients, you have not once provided any instance or particulars as to where that alleged defamation has occurred; and indeed despite the several requests for you to do so.“
Saturday, 8th January 2022
Mr Andrew Stewart
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
Tower One – International Towers Sydney
Level 46, 100 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo NSW 2000
Dear Mr Stewart
Re: Law Society of NSW and Ms Juliana Warner
I refer to your letter of 24th December 2021, being a purported concerns notice. As you are aware, I responded to your letter that same day with a further particulars notice, as defined under section 12A(3) of the Defamation Act 2005 (NSW).
Given your failure to respond to such, such concerns notice is now taken as not having been given (as provided for under section 12A(5) of the said Act).
On re-reading your letters of 2nd December, 20th December, and 24th December 2021, it is of note that despite your repeated rhetoric and claims of the defamation of your clients, you have not once provided any instance or particulars as to where that alleged defamation has occurred; and indeed despite the several requests for you to do so.
It is somewhat concerning that given all the evidence as placed before you of the improper conduct of your client(s) (including Court documentation) you continue to write to me demanding my silence on the matter.
Your attempting to conceal the improper conduct of your clients, as well as the criminal activities of other legal professionals associated with the matter, could not be any more obvious.
Your conduct, as well as that of your clients, is not acceptable, and I refer you to section 316 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW).
Yours faithfully
Excerpt of letter from Andrew Stewart of 25 February 2022
“Our clients again require that you:
1. immediately and permanently remove the content available at www.julianawarner.com and do not publish this content, including on any other website or in any other form;
2. undertake in writing by Friday, 4 March 2022 not to publish the material currently accessible at www.julianawarner.com in any other form….“
Friday, 25th February 2022
Mr Andrew Stewart
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
Tower One – International Towers Sydney
Level 46, 100 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo NSW 2000
Dear Mr Stewart
Re: Law Society of NSW and Ms Juliana Warner
I refer to your letter of even date (copy attached). I also refer to your previous letters of 2nd December 2021, 20th December 2021, and 24th December 2021.
This letter will serve as a further particulars notice as defined under section 12A(3) of the Defamation Act 2005 (NSW).
As in your previous letters to me, you allege that I have made defamatory statements about your clients (being the Law Society of NSW and Ms Juliana Warner), and I seek from you the particulars of any alleged defamatory statement as made by myself.
This is your fourth letter to me alleging defamation, with each and every one of your letters being devoid of any example or particularisation of such. Despite my several and repeated requests from you for particulars of any such defamation, you continually refuse to respond.
Again, I request that you provide to me particulars of any false, misleading, or defamatory statement I have made about either of your clients, and I also request that you provide to me the basis of any Court proceedings your clients may commence against me.
It is of note that I have had cause to write to Mr Milton Cheng, Global Chair of your firm, on numerous occasions regarding your conduct and the conduct of the Baker McKenzie Sydney office. As such, Mr Cheng will receive a copy of this letter.
Yours faithfully
From: Symn Waters
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 at 09:11
Subject: Quora and the non-achievement thereof – criminal conduct
To: andrew.stewart@bakermckenzie.
Cc: chambers.chiefjustice@courts.
[email protected]
peter.engstrom@bakermckenzie.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Dear Mr Stewart
As you know, I wrote to you yesterday regarding a fabricated committee meeting and the non-achievement of any quorum in relation to such.
On the same topic of quora, find attached copy of minutes of another non-quorate meeting, ie the ‘meeting of creditors‘ as supposedly took place in the offices of Jones Partners on 29 May 2014. As you well know, Terence Goldberg was the only attendee at this ‘meeting of creditors‘, and despite the stipulation of Regulation 5.6.16(2) of the Corporations Regulations deeming such meeting to be null and void, Jones Partners claimed the ‘meeting’ to be true and valid, which, of course, it was not.
From: Symn Waters
Date: Monday, 6 June 2022 8:47 AM
Subject: The covering up of criminal conduct within the legal profession
To: andrew.stewart@bakermckenzie.
Cc: [email protected]
peter.engstrom@bakermckenzie.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Dear Mr Stewart
You have provided neither comment nor response to my E-mail to you of 27 May 2022 (as below), which deals with the covering up of wrongdoing as taking place within the Law Society of NSW and indeed specific criminal conduct within the legal profession itself.
Excerpt of letters from Andrew Stewart
From: Symn Waters
From: Symn Waters
Subject: The Law Society of NSW
Dear Mr Forbes
Excerpt of letter to Paul Forbes of 19 July 2022
“In exactly the same vein, you and your firm are now unable to provide me with the ‘legitimate concerns’ as now supposedly held by your clients. Quite simply, there are none to provide. Barren threats and baseless assertions it seems are normal practice and are made with a simple backward wave of a hand, and with no consequence to speak of.”
Mr Forbes is yet to respond (as at [current_date format=’l, j F Y’]).
