Medical Negligence: The Current Issues
Issues covered include: s 59 Wrongs Act, wrongful birth, expert evidence, consent
Description
While advances in the health field have brought significant patient benefits, they have also introduced new challenges. Expand your knowledge of the Wrongs Act, review the year’s more significant cases, refresh your understanding of facilitating medical claims, and dissect the specific areas of expert evidence for health professionals. Address all these current concerns in one morning.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Substantive Law
Chair: Deborah Foy, Barrister, Henry Winneke Chambers
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: Catching Up: The Latest Cases and Developments
Overview and analysis of recent medical law cases with a particular emphasis on cases of significance both in terms procedural law and substantive law.
Presented by Dimitra Dubrow, Principal; Leading Medical Negligence Compensation Lawyer (Plaintiff) Doyle’s Guide 2018, and Gabrielle Feery, Senior Associate, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
9.50am to 10.35am: Section 59 of the Wrongs Act
- How does it operate?
- Onus on the defendant?
- Recent interpretation by the Courts
Presented by Abhi Mukherjee, Barrister, Greens List
10.35am to 10.50am Morning Tea
10.50am to 11.35am: Claiming Damages in a Wrongful Birth Claim
- Establish the essential elements in a damages claim resulting in the negligent birth of a child
- What are the available damages, and how are they claimed?
Presented by Clare Eves, Medical Law Practice Leader, Shine Lawyers
11.35am to 12.20pm: Expert Evidence in Medical Negligence Cases
- Choosing an expert
- Briefing an expert
- Recent Mabior decision in WA
Presented by Dugald McWilliams, Barrister, Henry Winneke Chambers
12.20pm to 1.05pm: Consent: Sword or Shield?
- Is consent an element of the tort or a defence?
- Background/history of consent
- Victorian approach
- NSW approach
- Recent cases
Presented by Jing Zhu, Barrister, Douglas Menzies Chambers
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
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