Biography

Katrina practices predominantly in the areas of:

• estate and trust litigation (including contested probate, family provision, construction and rectification, statutory wills, and informal wills and breaches of trust);
• professional and medical negligence (including D & O Liability);
• public and product liability (including related insurance law matters of policy and contract interpretation, indemnity and contribution); and
• administrative law (including judicial review).

Katrina has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide as a Recommended Wills and Estates Litigation Junior Counsel Queensland in 2019 and 2020 and a Leading Wills and Estate Litigation Junior Counsel 2021 and 2022.

She regularly appears in contested applications, trials, mediations and conferences. She is a member of Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners, the Australian Insurance Lawyers Association, and the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy.  Katrina also provides pro bono services to Caxton Legal Centre, Law Right and the Animal Law Institute.

Katrina holds undergraduate degrees in Law (Hons) and Psychological Science, an LLM (Applied Law), and a PhD in Law.