My specialty is medical negligence claims against doctors and nurses –especially acting for medical defence organisations and private hospital operators in the defence of such claims.

I am committed to being responsive to clients’ needs and providing timely and accurate advice.

Career highlights

• Comcover and government clients – acting in general liability, property damage, professional indemnity, and directors’ and officers’ claims
• A Commonwealth agency – represented the client in a class action brought by a group of plaintiffs for personal injury resulting from alleged lead poisoning, achieving a global settlement following mediation
• Medical defence organisations – defended personal injury claims against doctors and represented doctors in complaints and investigations before the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
• The owner and operator of a private hospital – acting in the defence of negligence claims for personal injury
• A private insurance client – successfully defended a common law action brought in the ACT Supreme Court by a plaintiff who slipped at a licensed club
  
• XL Insurance – successfully defended an ACT Supreme Court action brought against the owner of a shopping centre for personal injury arising from a slip and fall recovering costs from the unsuccessful plaintiff

Education
BEC (Economics) LLB (Hons)

• Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory, Member
• Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance, former Committee Member (ACT Branch)
• Australian Insurance Law Association, Member

• Lawyers of the Year 2014, 24 April 2014
• Alert - Disclosure trumps client privilege in ACT personal injury proceedings, 19 March 2012