Presenters

Bettina Mangan SC, Francis Burt Chambers
Bettina’s practice covers insurance, contract, general and professional negligence, professional disciplinary matters, occupational health and safety prosecutions and coronial inquiries, workers’ compensation and assessment of damages including in catastrophic personal injury and fatal accidents claims. Bettina provides legal opinions, including for insurers and, in support of applications for leave to compromise claims of persons under disability. She acts as counsel at trial and appeal hearings, as well as pre-trial conferences and mediations. Bettina provides strategic and liability advice on historic child abuse matters. Bettina has appeared as counsel in a variety of jurisdictions including the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Coroner’s Court of Western Australia, District Court of Western Australia, High Court of Australia, State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, and Supreme Court of Western Australia. Bettina completed the ACDC Mediators Course and accepts briefs as a mediator. She has acted as an independent arbiter on a private dispute. Bettina regularly presents papers for continuing legal education. Bettina is a member of WA Bar Chambers Limited Board of Directors (Francis Burt Chambers).


Jocelyn White, Director, Clarity Occupational Therapy
Jocelyn has completed a Master Clinical Rehabilitation (Neurological Occupational Therapy), published research, presented at multiple conferences, and worked in neurological rehabilitation for over two decades. She has been a Senior Occupational Therapist at Royal Perth Hospital and Fiona Stanley Hospital, working in neurology and neurosurgery wards and neuroscience outpatients. She led a transformative project promoting independence in the neurological rehabilitation ward at Shenton Park Campus and was one of the first WA Occupational Therapists to undertake and apply SENSe training. In 2015, she moved to Rehabilitation in the Home and became the Stroke/Neurology consultative Occupational Therapist. Jocelyn initiated and published research on ecological cognitive assessment after stroke and co-led the implementation of Constraint Induced Movement Therapy. She has served on the South Metropolitan Human Ethics Research Committee and the Australian Telehealth Stroke Community of Practice. She is currently a member of the Stroke Foundation Clinical Guidelines Working Group and WA Acquired Brain Injury Advisory Group.

Presenters

Bettina Mangan SC, Francis Burt Chambers
Bettina’s practice covers insurance, contract, general and professional negligence, professional disciplinary matters, occupational health and safety prosecutions and coronial inquiries, workers’ compensation and assessment of damages including in catastrophic personal injury and fatal accidents claims. Bettina provides legal opinions, including for insurers and, in support of applications for leave to compromise claims of persons under disability. She acts as counsel at trial and appeal hearings, as well as pre-trial conferences and mediations. Bettina provides strategic and liability advice on historic child abuse matters. Bettina has appeared as counsel in a variety of jurisdictions including the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Coroner’s Court of Western Australia, District Court of Western Australia, High Court of Australia, State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, and Supreme Court of Western Australia. Bettina completed the ACDC Mediators Course and accepts briefs as a mediator. She has acted as an independent arbiter on a private dispute. Bettina regularly presents papers for continuing legal education. Bettina is a member of WA Bar Chambers Limited Board of Directors (Francis Burt Chambers).


Jocelyn White, Director, Clarity Occupational Therapy
Jocelyn has completed a Master Clinical Rehabilitation (Neurological Occupational Therapy), published research, presented at multiple conferences, and worked in neurological rehabilitation for over two decades. She has been a Senior Occupational Therapist at Royal Perth Hospital and Fiona Stanley Hospital, working in neurology and neurosurgery wards and neuroscience outpatients. She led a transformative project promoting independence in the neurological rehabilitation ward at Shenton Park Campus and was one of the first WA Occupational Therapists to undertake and apply SENSe training. In 2015, she moved to Rehabilitation in the Home and became the Stroke/Neurology consultative Occupational Therapist. Jocelyn initiated and published research on ecological cognitive assessment after stroke and co-led the implementation of Constraint Induced Movement Therapy. She has served on the South Metropolitan Human Ethics Research Committee and the Australian Telehealth Stroke Community of Practice. She is currently a member of the Stroke Foundation Clinical Guidelines Working Group and WA Acquired Brain Injury Advisory Group.