Catherine specialises in health, education, privacy and commercial law. She advises a wide range of public and private sector clients, with a particular focus on clients in the health and education sectors.
Catherine's health expertise includes advising on medico-legal issues (including consent to treatment, competency issues and end of life services), medicines regulation and the management of human tissue, research, complaints, inquiries and investigations (including Health and Disability Commissioner inquiries), and policy development.
She regularly assists clients with drafting, revising and negotiating agreements, procurement processes and tender documentation, and organisational structuring.
Catherine also has extensive education sector experience. She has recently advised on pastoral care and wellbeing obligations, international student arrangements (including contractual arrangements with off-shore entities), and COVID-19.
Catherine provides practical advice on information management, including Official Information Act and Privacy Act requests, managing Privacy Act breaches and notification obligations, and compliance with the Health Information Privacy Code.
