Katherine Oldfield
Katherine has a passion for making people’s lives better whether you have a bung knee, a crook neck or a complex medical problem arising from an obscure condition. She has a particular talent with medical negligence cases and those with complex factual situations. Her clients regularly comment that she explains things to them in words they can understand.
Katherine has been representing injured clients in the ACT, NSW, Victoria and the NT for 12 years. She regularly argues cases in all the Courts, Tribunals and Compensation Schemes in NSW, especially the Supreme and District Courts, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Workers Compensation Commission and the Motor Accident Authority Resolution Service.
Her particular areas of practice include:
- Medical negligence
- Medical malpractice
- Professional negligence
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Workers compensation claims
- Claims against others for injury
Career History
- Beilby Poulden Costello since 2006
- Ward Keller, Darwin 2004-2006
- Blumers, Canberra 1998-2004
- Wood Fussell, Canberra 1996-2004
- Paralegal 1988-1996
Professional Qualifications
- 1996 Admitted to the Supreme Court of the ACT
- 1996 Admitted to the High Court of Australia
- 1996 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, ANU
- 1995 Bachelor of Laws, ANU with units from University of London
Memberships & Associations
- Law Society of NSW
- Australian Lawyers Alliance
- Alzheimers Australia NT Inc
- member 2004-2006
- Executive Committee Member, Public Officer and Secretary 2004 – 2006
- pro-bono Legal Adviser 2004 to date
- ACT Women Lawyers’ Association
- member 1998-2004
- Treasurer 1999-2004
- ACT Department of Urban Services, Urban Animal Management Sub-Committee – Legal Adviser
- ACT Women’s Legal Referral Centre – Legal Adviser 1996-2004
