Current Concerns in Medical Negligence
Issues covered include: Case update, the law and the mentally ill, inquests, nervous shock and compensation, medical negligence claims, joint expert reports
Description
While advances in the health field have brought significant patient benefits, they have also introduced new challenges. Expand your knowledge of legal capacity issues, review the year’s most significant cases, refresh your understanding of facilitating medical claims, and dissect the specific areas of risk for health professionals.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
2 units in Substantive Law
2 units in Professional Skills
Chair: Kevin Connor SC, Maurice Byers Chambers
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: Medical Negligence Case Update: A Discussion of Recent Cases
- Section 50 Civil Liability Act 2002
- Causation in medical cases
- Wrongful birth
- Intentional torts
Presented by Karen Kumar, Barrister, Maurice Byers Chambers
9.50am to 10.35am: Medical Law and the Mentally Ill
- Examine extensively the duty of care owed by health professionals to individuals suffering mental illness
- In what circumstances is that duty likely to be breached and causative of loss or damage?
Presented by Clare Eves, Medical Law Practice Leader, Shine Lawyers
10.35am to 10.50am Morning Tea
10. 50am to 11.35am: Matters of Life and Death: Inquests, Nervous Shock and Compensation
- Coronial inquests and investigations
- Nervous shock claims
- Compensation to Relatives Act claims
Presented by Rebecca Tidswell, Special Counsel, Carroll and O’Dea; Leading Medical Negligence Compensation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018 and Jesikah Richardson, Law Clerk, Carroll and O’Dea
Professional Skills
11.35am to 12.20pm: The Importance of Getting an Accurate History in a Medical Negligence Claim
Strategic considerations in running a medical negligence claim and establishing causation
- Normal versus disorder: Does the plaintiff qualify for a psychiatric disorder?
- Adjustment reaction versus disorder
- Normal versus pathological grief
- How experts decide and why they disagree
Presented by Dr Lisa Brown, Psychiatrist
Professional Skills
12.20pm to 1.05pm: Getting a Better Joint Expert Report in Medical Negligence Claims
- How to prepare
- The questions are the thing
- Why use a facilitator?
- Consequences of being prepared v briefing late
Presented by Kerry Hogan-Ross, Principal, Kerry Hogan-Ross Mediations and Karen Stott, Principal, ADR & Mediation Services
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km
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