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Rosemary is a barrister with over 30 years’ experience in Criminal and Mental Health law. She has extensive experience in forensic criminal matters including fitness to plead and insanity. She was appointed a District Inspector for Mental Health, a watchdog role, in 2003. Rosemary is a former convenor of the (then) ADLS Mental Health & Disability Committee. She has presented seminars on mental health and made submissions to the Ministry of Health.
Rosemary published an article outlining the history of the Child & Adolescent Unit at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital: as a comprehensive factual and legal analysis in the lead-up to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, in the Australian Journal of Law & Medicine (JLM) in 2020. Rosemary subsequently presented a paper at the 2021 Australia New Zealand Association of Psychiatrists Psychologists and Lawyers (ANZAPPL) Congress following the Royal Commission’s Case Study into the Child & Adolescent Unit at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s.