Chris Jordan will leave the United Kingdom tomorrow (New Zealand time) bound for Queenstown for the three-day hearing for Black Sheep Adventures Ltd and its director, Brad Alexander McLeod.
Miss Jordan (21) was trapped between submerged rocks on April 29 last year, while river-boarding with the Mad Dog River Boarding company.
It took rescuers 20 minutes to free the 21-year-old, who had been on the trip with her boyfriend.
Despite resuscitation efforts, the law graduate died at the scene.
The company and its director deny three charges facing each under the Health and Safety Employment Act 1992, laid by Maritime New Zealand (MNZ).
The charges are: failing to take all practicable steps to protect employees while on a river-boarding trip; failing to take all practicable steps to ensure no action, or inaction, of any employees while at work harmed Emily Louise Jordan; and failing to take all practicable steps to ensure no hazard in the place of work harms people who are in that place, with express or implied consent and who have paid to undertake an activity there.
Each charge carries a maximum penalty of $250,000.
The prosecution counsel, Brent Stanaway, is expected to call 12 witnesses, however two witnesses - both from the United Kingdom - have previously recorded their evidence.
Defence counsel Michael Parker is expected to call four witnesses.
Before leaving for New Zealand, Mr Jordan told the Kidderminster Shuttle newspaper he hoped to see an inquest, which had not been held yet due to the court proceedings having not being concluded.
"We want to see changes made to the health and safety laws with regard to some of these extreme sports," he said.
Since her death, her family have set up the Emily Jordan Foundation in her memory, which aims to help individuals with moderate learning and physical disabilities to lead fulfilled lives.
- Additional reporting: Kidderminster Shuttle
