When someone is harmed in a hospital or a surgeon’s rooms, the physical injury is only the beginning. Then comes everything else: being told it is normal, being treated as though you are exaggerating, asking questions that never get a straight answer, and watching an institution close ranks around the people who hurt you.

For me, justice means repairing both: a real explanation of what happened, accountability from the person or system responsible, and compensation that reflects what has actually been lost.

My doctorate in law looked at patterns of failure in medical negligence, and it changed how I see patient harm. It is rarely one person's bad day. More often it is a pattern: decisions repeated across many patients, warning signs not acted on, and systems that let responsibility disappear. That idea sits at the centre of everything I do.

People rarely come to me for the money first. They come because they want to know what happened, they want to be believed, and they do not want it to happen to anyone else.

I have been in practice since 2014, and in that time I have worked on many hundreds of claims. Today I am Of Counsel at Peter Evans & Associates in Newcastle, where my work is focused on medical negligence: birth trauma, oral and maxillofacial and dental injury, cosmetic surgery, delayed diagnosis, and surgical and neurosurgical harm.

I work with a small, close team who know every file, alongside trusted barristers and senior counsel. Clients don't get passed down a chain.

That is where the name Reframe Legal comes from: I look at a medical injury as a system to be investigated, not a dispute to react to. I'm not medically qualified, so I work closely with independent medical experts and build their evidence into a clear, credible story.

Compensation cannot undo an injury, so I also work on the other side of the problem.

I teach Health Law at the University of Newcastle’s School of Law and Justice, working with the next generation of lawyers on consent, negligence and patient rights, and returned to teach again in Semester 2, 2026. With the Maternity Consumer Network, I have delivered “Better Births with Consent” training to maternity clinicians, including in regional Queensland, because so much birth trauma begins with a conversation about consent that did not happen properly.

I also speak about patient safety and accountability, including on the Business for Doctors podcast, Surgery’s Dark Side and BFD25.

I live and work in Newcastle with my partner and our young daughter. Being a mother has changed how I hear the stories families bring to me, especially parents whose births or babies were harmed.