Then came budget over-runs and the last straw when a problem arose over the steel used in the construction of the trampolines - Bearman said it wasn't up to scratch and Worksafe said it didn't meet health and safety regulations. "I was pretty much fighting the whole year I was open."īearman said there was friction with franchise owner Steven Stone he said she was difficult to deal with. However, the trampoline park venture didn't turn out as planned. The pair share the raising of Bearman's three children from a previous relationship and the two younger children they have together. The idea was driven by a wish to blend her interest in business with things her children enjoyed.īearman was living in Westport at the time with her partner Blair Colligan, an entrepreneur in bottled water and minerals. She's applied some of what she learned off the TV to her four years fighting claims against her, for work on a trampoline park venture that went belly-up in 2019.īearman's story started in 2018 when her firm Urban Wolfire bought into Australian indoor trampoline arena franchise Flip Out to set up an arena in Wellington. However, I did get hooked on the Netflix series Suits," she laughs. Secondly, the 40-year-old read a bit of law during her business studies - but admits to having learned how to cross-examine witnesses from watching television. Gillian Bearman knows how to win an argument.įirstly, she's a mother of five - the eldest approaching teenagehood, the youngest aged just three.
Today she tells Open Justice what it takes to not only defend yourself, but come away with the law on your side. So, inspired by what she'd seen on the TV series Suits, she headed into the courtroom on her own. The cost of a lawyer was out of reach for one 40-year-old mother-of-five.
Heading to court is challenging enough without taking it on alone. Daughter Dior plays on the trampoline behind her at home in Richmond. Gillian Bearman said she had no option but to represent herself in a legal case after her part in a trampoline park franchise went south.
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