Covid-19 vaccine Injury compensation, insight into proposed changes to the regulation of cosmetic surgeons and a practical guide to subpoenas and how to respond to them are the hot topics covered in this webinar. 

Presenters

Dr. Tina Popa, Senior Lecturer, RMIT University
Dr Tina Popa is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University. Tina's research and teaching interests are in tort law, health law, psychiatric harm and alternative/appropriate dispute resolution. Tina researches legal issues in medical negligence compensation, no-fault compensation systems and psychiatric harm, as well as the role of non-adversarial approaches to justice in tort/health law. Tina's PhD thesis explored the challenges in the litigation and mediation of medical negligence and mental harm claims in the post-Ipp era. Tina is a passionate lecturer and her contribution to L&T has been recognised through university, school and student-nominated awards. Tina's research has been published in leading Australian journals, including the Torts Law Journal, Tort Law Review and Journal of Law & Medicine, and she regularly presents her work at national and international conferences. Tina has had international visiting fellowships in medical law, including with the University of Ottawa in Canada and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Tina is presently the General Editor of the Tort Law Review (Thomson Reuters), a refereed journal containing coverage of contemporary issues in tort law, within Australia and internationally.


Ms. Emily Hart, Principal Lawyer, Maurice Blackburn
Emily Hart is a Principal Lawyer in Maurice Blackburn's medical negligence department in Melbourne, and a Law Institute of Victoria personal injury accredited specialist. She is also the first point of contact for many people at The Alfred Hospital through the HeLP clinic, which she helped to establish.


Ms. Neroli Martin, Consultant, Barry Nilsson
Neroli has 35 years’ experience including acting for and advising health professionals and organisations responding to professional indemnity claims, disciplinary proceedings and coroner’s inquests. Neroli‘s practice also includes a significant amount of work in general insurance law, including public and product liability, property damage, indemnity and contractual disputes. She has extensive experience in areas such as indemnity disputes, policy interpretation, contract claims and catastrophic injury claims. Neroli focuses on early strategy to assist clients to determine whether a claim should be the subject of alternative dispute resolution, or defence. She has a reputation for achieving excellent results for her clients whether at mediation, or at hearing. Neroli has been recognised in the peer-review guide, Best Lawyers in Australia since 2021, for her expertise in Personal Injury Litigation and since 2022, in Health and Aged Care Law, Medical Negligence and Insurance Law. Neroli holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Sydney University. She is a member of Women in Insurance and the Australian Insurance Law Society.


Professor Tina Cockburn TEP, Director, Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Professor Tina Cockburn TEP, is a Professor of Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), co-lead of the ACHLR Planning for Healthy Ageing program, sessional member of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) and member of the Queensland Law Society Health and Disability Law Committee. Prior to joining QUT she was employed as a solicitor with Feez Ruthning (now Allens). Tina’s health law research focuses on access to justice by vulnerable members of society in three broad contexts: patient safety law; elder and disability law; and the institutional abuse of children. In the area of patient safety law, Tina’s research focuses on medico-legal issues, health decision making, communication of information to patients (including patient consent and post treatment open disclosure), regulation of healthcare and healthcare providers, medical litigation, compensation and redress arising out of adverse medical outcomes. In the area of elder and disability law, Tina’s research focuses on estate planning, succession law, trusts, decision making, elder abuse and adult safeguarding. In the area of the institutional abuse of children, her research focuses on compensation and redress for child sexual abuse. She has over 170 publications, including peer reviewed articles in quality national and international journals and high impact professional journals, four co-authored books and an edited book. Her research has been supported by national and international competitive grants, including the Economic & Social Research Council (UK) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), industry funding and not for profits. She is regularly invited to deliver lectures and continuing professional education programs for the legal and medical professions.


Dr. Ada Lim, Barrister, 3 St James Hall
Prior to coming to the Bar, Ada worked as a medical practitioner for over a decade, as a solicitor in a boutique litigation firm, and as a casual academic and research student in computer science. Ada also holds a private pilot’s license and is working toward her second and third FAI Diamonds in sailplanes. Ada is also a designated aviation medical examiner.

Legal and Regulatory Issues for the Health Sector

This timely, and information-packed webinar series will assist senior health decision makers and their legal advisors to keep abreast of hot legal topics and regulatory developments that they will find of practical application. Commencing on Tuesday 30 May and each Tuesday for 3 weeks, the webinars provide information on key legal issues, AHPRA & Medical Board regulatory updates as well as an in-depth look at Coronial Inquiries in a health setting. Book all 3 or the webinars of most value to you. WEB235N26Z