Thursday, 5 March 2026
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Ethics in Personal Injury Practice: Representing Someone with Psychiatric Injuries
Presented by Julia Wedlock, Barrister, Albert Wolff Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Dr Rob Guthrie, Retired Assessor Criminal Injuries Compensation and Adjunct Professor at School of Business Law, Curtin University
Presenters
Dr Rob Guthrie, Retired Assessor Criminal Injuries Compensation and Adjunct Professor at School of Business Law, Curtin University
Rob Guthrie was admitted to practice in 1982 and worked in private practice for about 10 years and continued to practice whilst an academic at Curtin University for 20 years. He practiced, researched and lectured in employment issues and in particular workers compensation matters. He was appointed an Assessor of Criminal Injuries Compensation in 2010 and retired from that position in 2023. Rob is currently on the Board of Circle Green CLC. He is also a trades assistant in his son's carpentry and landscape business, a job for which he has no qualifications.
Julia Wedlock, Barrister, Albert Wolff Chambers
Julia graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts, and in 2012 with a Bachelor of Laws. Julia was admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2013 and in the High Court of Australia in 2017. Prior to coming to the Bar in 2025, Julia practiced in family law and personal injury. More recently, Julia specialised in representing survivors of childhood sexual abuse. In her practice as a solicitor, Julia was involved in the leading institutional abuse cases in Western Australia, following the removal of the limitation period for survivors in 2018. Julia is a passionate and engaged member of the Perth legal community. Julia is a member of the Australian Lawyers Alliance (WA State Branch Committee) and is the Membership Officer for Women Lawyers of Western Australia. Julia is also a member of the Law Society of Western Australia and sits on two Law Society Committees: the Workers’ Compensation and Personal Injuries Committee and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Committee.
