Paula Shelton 
Practice Group Leader, Melbourne
Medical negligence
Paula Shelton’s clients are overwhelmingly ordinary and as varied as any set of patients but all find themselves in the extraordinary shared circumstance of having experienced medical negligence.
They may have experienced birth trauma, failure to diagnose cancer, failure to warn of the risks of operations, negligent surgery, failure to follow up results or failure to refer for appropriate specialist treatment.
Securing each a measure of compensation that will make it easier for them to cope with their injury runs in close parallel to Paula’s passion to ensure that all obtain justice. She is committed, thorough and, by her own admission, “not afraid of a fight”.
“Corny as it sounds I do my job because I believe in it,” she says. “The right of injured people to seek justice is fundamental and those who provide negligent treatment must be accountable.”
Paula graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1992 and has been working at Slater & Gordon ever since.
“Corny as it sounds I do my job because I believe in it. The right of injured people to seek justice is fundamental and those who provide negligent treatment must be accountable.”
Expertise
- Medical negligence
- Product liability
- Class actions
Career history
- Slater & Gordon, since 1992, lawyer
Memberships & associations
- Western Health Ethics Committee
- Law Institute of Victoria Ethics Liaison Group
Publications / articles / books
- 2001 Accredited Specialist, Personal Injury Law, Law Institute of Victoria
- 1993 Admitted, Supreme Court of Victoria
- 1992 Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne
- 1992 Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne