Kathryn Booth
Principal
Key practice areas: Medical Negligence
Qualifications: LLB, BEc
Location: Melbourne (VIC)
Kathryn Booth heads the national Medical Negligence practice.
She is an expert in medical malpractice law and practices
exclusively on behalf of patients and their families.
She is a Law Institute accredited specialist in personal injury
law and practises in the jurisdictions of the Supreme Court, County
Court and Coroner's Court. Kathryn has also been successful in High
Court applications.
Kathryn has achieved hundreds of settlements for
catastrophically injured adults and children due to medical
negligence. She has a special interest in women's health issues,
particularly obstetrics and gynaecology. Sheis calling on the
Victorian Government to amend legislation to expand Coronial
powers to investigate still births which occur every year in
Victoria.
Kathryn is a member of the Australian Lawyers Alliance and
established the Women's Law Section at Maurice Blackburn. She
is also the Chairperson of the Law Institute of Victoria's Medical
Negligence and Public Liability Committee, a member of the Law
Institute of Victoria's Litigation Lawyers Executive Committee and
on the Board of Maurice Blackburn.
Kathryn also lectures to lawyers, doctors and hospital managers
on the duty of care owed to patients.
