What is the role of Slater & Gordon?
Slater & Gordon will be your lawyer in relation to your Westpoint claim. We will take your instructions as required, provide you with legal advice, seek to negotiate a settlement on your behalf, and run the Court proceedings. Slater & Gordon will owe fiduciary duties to Westpoint investors that enter into the Retainer Agreement. Under the IMF Funding Agreement (“IMF Agreement”), IMF will pay Slater & Gordon’s legal fees to act on your behalf. However, Slater & Gordon do not act as lawyers for IMF, and will only act in the individual and collective interests of the Westpoint investors that retain us. IMF will perform or assist in a variety of non-legal tasks such as document collection, database management, and investigative work. IMF will not be providing legal advice to Westpoint investors. As a result of these shared responsibilities – IMF will assume responsibility for sending some of Slater & Gordon’s general correspondence to Westpoint investors. This is one of the ways in which w
