Join us for a fast-paced, one-hour update on the most important personal injury decisions shaping practice in Western Australia. This session will be presented by David Burton, one of WA’s leading defendant insurance lawyers. Gain practical insights into recent case law across CTP, liability, employer negligence, costs and procedural issues, and learn how these developments are influencing claims strategy, litigation risk and client advisory work. Perfect for practitioners wanting to stay ahead before year-end.

Presenters

Justin Dyson, Partner, McCabes
Justin represents both insurers and self-insureds across a wide range of workers' compensation matters, from smaller claims involving technical issues such as calculation of weekly payments, through to catastrophic injuries involving complex factual disputes. He also focuses on marine seafarers' and public liability claims. He has acted in a number of major Western Australian matters. His area of expertise includes claims involving catastrophic and complex injuries; assessment of whole person impairment; psychiatric injury, including workplace stress; physical injury, including back and neck injuries, breaks and fractures, severe spinal injuries and paraplegia; common law actions in the District Court. Justin regularly provides training to clients on a broad range of topics such as stress claims, practical claims management of dispute resolution, fraud, weekly payments, identifying and managing long term claims and with the interpretation of various sections of the Workers' Compensation and Injury Management Act. Justin joined SRB Legal in 2000 and was admitted to practice in 2001.

David Burton, Partner, McCabes
David Burton practised as a Barrister at the Cape Town Bar in civil and criminal litigation during the height of turbulent apartheid years in South Africa. David emigrated to Perth in 1986 and was an insurance partner at the national insurance law firm, Phillips Fox, for 10 years, where he headed up to the workers compensation department and established a substantial defendant personal injury insurance practice. David joined Norm Srdarov and Graeme Richards to establish, as a founding partner, Srdarov Richards Burton, in 1999, and then rebadged SRB Legal, a specialist insurance law firm. On 1 July 2020 SRB Legal joined and became part of a national law firm, McCabes. David is a highly experienced mediator, having settled 100s of personal injury claims for insurers and self-insureds, but is also an experienced Trial Counsel, regularly appearing as SRB Legal/McCabes In-House Counsel. David has successfully appeared as Counsel in defending claims in the High Court, Appeal Court, Supreme Court, District Court as well as the WorkCover Tribunal over the last 30 years. David is widely regarded as a leading practitioner in personal injury, CTP and catastrophic injury claims in Western Australia. David has over two decades experience in acting as Trial Counsel for the Insurance Commission of Western Australia (ICWA) in the defence of CTP, catastrophic, psychiatric, workers compensation, public liability and employer common law claims. David has consistently been recognised as a pre-eminent defendant CTP and personal injury lawyer in the Doyle Guide rankings from 2016 – 2021. Outside of the law, David is an avid reader, Rugby Union tragic and passionate surfer. He loves the waves in the Yallingup area, and travelling with his wife to tropical surf locations, where the water is warm, the sharks are small and vegetarian.