Purpose: Early, simple identification of technical issues before committing to expert engagement or substantive casework.

What this includes:

• Review of the client’s factual narrative, affidavit, or statement for technical accuracy, sequencing, and mechanism clarity

• Identification of technical misunderstandings, contradictions, or gaps that may affect later expert engagement

• Initial scan of technical issues which may relate to the HBA, SoPA, Contract, DBP Act, or ACL

• Early procedural and evidentiary risks

• Plain‑language explanation, to solicitor on record

Benefit: Helps solicitors and their clients save money, by deciding whether to proceed, settle, escalate, or continue and brief an expert.

Purpose: Ensure the expert is briefed accurately, comprehensively, and in alignment with the technical issues in dispute.

What this includes:

• Identification of technical issues that may interact with the HBA, SoPA, Contract, DBP Act, or ACL

• Identification of applicable NCC and AS/NZS standards

• Examination of technical causation pathways

• Structured, standards‑aligned scope for expert engagement

Benefit: Prevents mis‑briefing, scope drift, and incomplete expert opinions; reduces expert costs; and ensures alignment between the solicitor’s legal theory and the technical evidence.

Compliance note: Any references to legislation are limited to identifying where technical issues may intersect with statutory frameworks. Legal advice, interpretation, and pleading decisions remain solely with the solicitor on record.

Purpose: Determine whether the expert report is technically sound, evidence‑based, procedurally compliant, and correct in its analysis of causation.

What this includes:

• Revealing errors, unsupported assertions, contradictions, and inconsistencies

• Assessing methodology and reasoning

• Identifying the correct applicable building, construction, engineering, and procedural standards

• Determining any departures, omissions, or failures to comply

• Assessing whether the proper cause or causes were considered

Benefit: Identifies vulnerabilities before the other side does; avoids reliance on defective or non‑compliant expert evidence; informs whether a replacement expert is required.

NOTE: A severely deficient applicant’s expert report can remove the need for a respondant's expert report — the quickest win (and most satisfying) is showing their evidence has no weight, and cannot sustain the claim.

Purpose: Convert the technical findings from services 2 and 3 into structured, standards‑aligned material that supports counsel in preparing for mediation, directions hearings, and final hearing.

What this includes:

• issue‑by‑issue analysis of the opposing expert’s technical reasoning

• identification of gaps, unsupported assumptions, and standards inconsistencies

• mapping of technical vulnerabilities in the expert’s methodology

• raising technical questions that may assist counsel in testing the evidence

Benefit: Provides counsel with a clear understanding of the technical strengths and weaknesses in the expert evidence, supporting the development of case theory and hearing preparation.

All legal strategy, advocacy decisions, and cross‑examination remain solely the responsibility of the solicitor and counsel.

Purpose: Conduct CPD presentations for generalist solicitors, who want to better understand the legal framework around residential home building work in NSW.

Benefit: Solicitors can gain an understanding of the Home Building Act, Security of Payments Act and Design and Building Practitioners Act and how this legislation applies to protect their (homeowner) clients.

Purpose: Clear, independent review of an insurer’s repair scope to check whether it properly reflects the actual damage and the work reasonably needed to fix it.

What this includes:

• Review of the insurer’s builder assessment or repair scope for accuracy, completeness, and whether the proposed work matches the real damage

• Identification of missing items, unreasonable exclusions, or assumptions that don’t line up with how the damage actually occurred

• Check of construction method, sequencing, and Building Code compliance issues that may affect the quality or safety of the repair

• Correction of common misunderstandings (for example, when owners or builders believe they must provide three quotes, when the insurer’s scope limits repairs, settlement offers are very low)

• Plain‑English explanation to the builder or homeowner about what is missing, what is reasonable, and what may need to be added before quoting or accepting an insurer decision

  Benefit: Helps builders and homeowners understand whether the insurer’s scope or settlement amount is enough to repair the property properly and in line with Building Code requirements. This reduces the risk of under‑scoping, ensures the work can actually be completed to standard, and supports fair settlement discussions.

Consumer Law Support with Practical Engineering Insight

Some consumer disputes can benefit from simple, clear engineering input. Because I work across civil/structural engineering, construction materials, and the law, I can explain

• why something has gone wrong,

• whether an occurrence is feasible or impossible

• using established engineering principles, and

• demonstrate this through transparent calculations and objective reasoning.

My approach combines:

• applying straightforward engineering principles

• clear, plain‑English explanations

• an understanding of statutory warranties and consumer rights

This helps consumers resolve issues efficiently, without unnecessary conflict or confusion.

• Exredis does not provide legal services.

• Exredis does not conduct site inspections or produce expert reports.

• Exredis reviews and dismantles expert materials — it does not replace the role of the expert or the solicitor.

Exredis' multidisciplinary engineering and legal‑procedural services are based on an hourly rate of $600/hr + GST

Each of the services i provide, if they are straight forward, take about 1hr to complete.

Additional time may be required for matters involving:

• complex engineering drawings

• structural or geotechnical calculations

• multi‑disciplinary reports

• large annexure sets

• highly technical modelling

• conflicting expert reports

Any additional time required, is discussed with the solicitor/builder/home owner before work proceeds.