Thankfully, maternal deaths are rare in Australia. But the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report Maternal deaths in Australia 2015-2017 show that, tragically, healthy women do still…
Catherine Henry Lawyers’ health law team has settled our client’s claim for a large sum after she suffered from the unnecessary administration of Gentamicin whilst in hospital. What is Gentamicin?…
Catherine Henry Lawyers’ health law team secured sizeable damages for a fistula, caused by a surgical error which robbed our client of his quality of life. 11 follow up surgeries…
The 2020 Newcastle Writers Festival tackled the issue of women’s chronic pain in a discussion titled How Our Bodies Shape Us featuring writers Gabrielle Jackson and Lee Kofman. In her…
We successfully settled a negligence claim for our client who suffered mental harm (also known as ‘nervous shock’) when her mother was murdered by a nursing assistant at a facility…
We successfully settled our client’s claim for negligence for mental harm caused by mismanagement of her pregnancy which resulted in the tragic stillbirth of her daughter. Hospital failure to diagnose…
The program for the 8th Newcastle Writers Festival, to be held from April 3 to 5, 2020, is now available. Catherine Henry Lawyers supports the Newcastle Writers Festival each year and…
We have achieved a substantial settlement for our client who experienced continuous mismanagement and unnecessary surgeries by her gynaecologist, Dr Richard Reid, over 10 years. Catherine Henry Lawyers’ highly experienced…
We successfully resolved a claim for negligence leading to stillbirth caused by a hospital’s failure to diagnose and treat her pre-eclampsia and HELLP (Haemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes and Low Platelet)…
Leading health and medical lawyer Catherine Henry and her firm have both been recognised in the prestigious Doyles Guide lists of NSW’s top medical negligence and malpractice compensation lawyers and…
The Aged Care Act 1997 needs to be rewritten to improve safety and quality in aged care says the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) ahead of the release of the preliminary…
There is a myriad of reasons why you might be selling a business. Many business owners not only fail to draw the full value for their business, but they struggle…
We recently acted for the family members of a woman who successfully committed suicide while she was an inpatient at a mental health unit of a regional hospital. During her…
At the birth of their first child, our clients suffered terrible complications during labour and delivery at a Western Sydney hospital. The baby was ultimately born via emergency caesarean section…
We acted for a patient from Northern NSW who suffered numerous injuries connected to the use of pelvic mesh. After having four children, our client developed pelvic organ prolapse and…
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released its latest welfare snapshot series report. This report is on the topic of aged care for Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres…
We acted for a 70-year-old man from Northern NSW who suffered significant injury to his right knee, following a bilateral total knee replacement procedure (TKR). Our client underwent a TKR…
Our client’s 73-year-old mother tragically passed away as a result of an undiagnosed bowel obstruction. After presenting to hospital three times in two weeks, our client’s mother was finally admitted…
The ‘Final Report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals’ (the ‘Garling Report’) was released in 2008 and presented various recommendations to the…
We helped one of the families featured in the second part of Who Cares?, the ABC TV Four Corners expose into the aged care sector, to fight for justice. [The…
We have represented hundreds of people who have successfully obtained lump sum compensation for personal injuries and disabilities caused by negligence. In our experience, we often find that people do…
The parents and grandmother of a child instructed us in a claim for negligence for mental harm caused by the mismanagement of vaginal breech birth which resulted in the neonatal…
In recent decades, maternity health policy in Australia has promoted vaginal delivery and prioritised reducing the rates of delivery by caesarean section. In NSW, the maternity health policy, Towards Normal…
Watt v State of NSW [2018] NSWSC 1926 is a decision of the Honourable Justice Garling in the NSW Supreme Court which considered the s54 Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW)…
The Australasian Birth Trauma Association and the Centre for Perinatal Psychology hosted the first Australasian Birth Trauma Conference in Brisbane earlier this month. Guest speakers addressed an interesting range of…
Mildura was host to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety hearing between July 29 and 31. According to senior counsel assisting the commission, Peter Gray, QC, the town…
The most recent Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety hearings in Darwin and Cairns highlighted some of the fundamental problems in Australia’s aged care sector - a lack…
Our client was left with very significant physical and psychological injuries, unable to work in her chosen field, needing further surgery, unable to care properly for her family, and at…
We helped an Aboriginal woman to successfully resolve a case against the Mid North Coast Health District for the birth trauma she experienced at a local hospital. Our client had…
The Perth hearing of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety inquired into the nature of person-centred care, advanced care planning and palliative care services. As is the…