Melinda Conry
Melinda is an experienced litigator, specialising in health law. She has expertise in conducting medical negligence litigation, acting for hospitals and doctors.
Melinda has a particular interest in quantifying the cost of care in cases involving catastrophic injury. Her specific experience includes matters concerning ante-natal testing, alleged “wrongful birth” and cerebral palsy claims.
Melinda also has experience defending matters brought in the Administrative Decisions Tribunal and the Anti-Discrimination Board.
Experience
Melinda’s experience includes:
- Acting for a NSW Public Hospital and doctors practising in the public system in a wrongful death claim relating to a patient who suffered epidural abscess;
- Acting for a NSW Public Hospital in a litigated matter involving hyponatreamia causing extensive brain injury;
- Successful defence of a NSW public hospital in relation to the attempted suicide of a mental health patient on weekend leave from a NSW public hospital in the Supreme Court of NSW: Smith v Pennington [2015] NSWSC 1168;
- Successful defence of a claim brought in the Supreme Court of NSW which involved patient consent relating to an endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy: Morocz v Marshman [2015] NSWSC 325;
- Acting for a cosmetic surgeon with respect to multiple plaints responding general practices, which have generated extensive media coverage; and
- Acting in multiple catastrophic and large claims involving cerebral palsy, wrongful birth, spinal and brain injury.