Thursday, 27 November 2025
Chair
Shelley Stevenson, Barrister, Kumutoto Chambers
Practical Insights on Economic Disparity Claims
- An overview of calculation approaches
- Key inputs and assumptions when preparing calculations
- Current issues and observations
- Common areas of disagreement between experts
- Practical scenarios
Presented by Matt Kemp, Partner, Gerry Rea Partners; Chartered Accountant
Learning Objectives:
- Learn key calculation methods and assumptions used in preparing economic disparity claims
- Identify common points of contention between financial experts and how to address them
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Shelley Stevenson, Barrister, Kumutoto ChambersShelley is an experienced family lawyer based in Wellington, New Zealand. She specialises in all aspects of family law and has special interest in relationship property and cases involving Oranga Tamariki. She is regularly appointed by the Family Court to represent children in parenting disputes and child protection cases. Earlier in her career Shelley was a youth advocate, criminal defence lawyer and civil litigator and has worked in family law since 1995.
Matt Kemp, Partner, Gerry Rea Partners
Matt has been with Gerry Rea Parters for 14 years, 12 as a Partner. Gerry Rea Partners is a chartered accountancy practice which specialises in the provision of insolvency and litigation support services including forensic accounting and valuation services. Insolvency services range from liquidation, creditors compromise, voluntary administration to receivership. Litigation support extends to forensic accounting, expert witness, share and business valuations. Matt specialises in litigation support, including undertaking forensic accounting and valuations. He is an experienced expert witness, having appeared in the Family Court, Employment Court, District Court, and High Court. Matt has also acted as an independent expert in mediations and settlements (including Judicial settlements) and has been appointed by the Family Court on several occasions to undertake economic disparity assessments, valuations and analysis work. Approximately two-thirds of Matt’s work is on relationship property matters, and they invariably include either preparing an economic disparity calculation or review and critiquing calculations prepared by others.
