Chair
David Higgs SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Industry Update: Parliamentary Enquiry into Birth Trauma (Obstetrics Violence)
- Submission highlights
- Final Report and recommendations
- Government response
- Practical application
Presented by Dr Anna Walsh, Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, Legal Consultant; former Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law (Medical Negligence); former Principal/Director, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
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Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Presenters
David Higgs SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
David was admitted as a solicitor in 1973, commenced practice as a barrister on 1 January 1977 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 1995. He has appeared in a wide variety of matters at first instance and/or on appeal in the Supreme Courts of NSW, the ACT, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia as well as in the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia. Relevant to this seminar, one of David’s main areas of practice is medical negligence. Only recently, in Polsen v Harrison [2024] NSWCA 224, he appeared before the New South Wales Court of Appeal for the appellant. That case deals with the vexed issue as to what is required for a defendant to establish no liability based on s.5O of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW). David now mainly acts as a mediator or arbitrator.
Dr Anna Walsh, Lecturer, University of Notre Dame
Dr Anna Walsh is a lawyer, bioethicist and academic. A former Principal of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, she spent 15 years specialising in medical law including birth trauma litigation for plaintiffs. She completed a doctorate in law in 2022 focusing on freedom of conscience for doctors and is a lecturer in the School of Law and Business at the University of Notre Dame Australia where she teaches a number of subjects including Health Law, Bioethics and Mental Health Law. Anna's qualifications are PhD (UNDA), M. Bioethics (Harvard), LL.M (re) (Syd), LL.B (Hons), B. Nurs (Hons).Dip. Leg. Prac.
