Health and Medical Law

HWLE’s Health and Medical Law team is a trusted advisor to Australia’s leading medical defence organisations, health insurers, hospitals, individual practitioners and industry bodies. Our lawyers practice exclusively in health law, offering deep expertise across medical negligence, professional discipline, regulatory investigations, and coronial inquests.

We also regularly assist clients with employment disputes, Medicare compliance, privacy, and clinical governance. Our team regularly advises on health law and policy, appearing before tribunals and regulatory bodies nationwide. With decades of experience and long-standing client relationships, we deliver strategic, responsive legal support tailored to the complex needs of the health sector.

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Health and Medical Law

Our experience

  • Medical Practitioners Acting for doctors across numerous specialties in litigation involving informed consent, surgical errors, misdiagnosis, and malpractice.
  • Hospitals Representing private hospitals as interested parties in coronial inquests involving patient deaths and systemic care issues.
  • Medicare Investigations Assisting GPs and specialists with Medicare audits, s92 settlements, and representation before Professional Services Review Committees when settlement is not viable.
  • Medical Colleges Assisting practitioners in disputes with professional colleges, including appeals and reviews of failed exams and expulsions from training programs.
  • Anaesthetists Group Representing multiple anaesthetists in HCCC and Medical Council investigations concerning facility licensing and professional conduct.
  • Private Hospital Assisting VMOs and senior specialists in hospital investigations involving misconduct or substandard care, negotiating exits or pursuing appeals and unfair dismissal claims.
  • Workplace Investigation Assisted a general physician in an internal investigation over patient-related communication, challenging allegations and guiding engagement, with an outcome of no findings or AHPRA action.
  • Urgent Inquest Provided same-day advice and representation for a GP at a coronial inquest, preparing the member to give evidence under urgent conditions following immediate instruction.