Our Firm

At the core of what I do at Rightside is my belief that abuse survivors deserve and need a strong advocate. Asking abusive institutions to do the right thing is usually a waste of time – they have to be dragged kicking and screaming towards justice.

They have to be made to face up to their failures. My whole focus is on doing that, while shielding our clients from the legal fight and ensuring they receive the maximum compensation.

This Rightside approach has changed the way sexual abuse survivors are compensated. Abusive institutions know they have to pay our clients proper compensation – or face a trial. That’s our key point of difference – we do not take a gently gently or non-adversarial approach to winning compensation for our clients.
I co-founded Rightside in 2016 because after 11 years with Slater & Gordon in Perth and Melbourne, I wanted to offer my clients a personal, cost-effective, smaller firm approach.

I’m proud of the impact Rightside has had – over the last 10 years, we’ve assisted many men and women to obtain proper compensation for the abuse they suffered as children, while also winning a string of trials, and changing the law for the better. We’ve won in the District Court (WA), the County Court (Vic), the Supreme Court (Vic), the Court of Appeal (Vic and WA) and the High Court. Our decisions have benefitted the clients of other firms too. I’m proud that we’ve won more court decisions for abuse survivors than all other Victorian firms combined.

In addition to abuse work, our lawyers have represented hundreds of asbestos victims, including winning trial verdicts in Western Australia and Victoria.And in 2015, I wrote a book, Silent Shock, about the global thalidomide tragedy. That followed over three years working for Australian thalidomide survivors, ending in a $100 million settlement.

Before starting as a lawyer I was a journalist with The Age and ABC Television.