After graduating from UWA in 1990, Meredith worked at the Crown Solicitor's Office in Perth before leaving to undertake a Masters' Degree at King's College London. She returned to London in September 1994 to take up a law lectureship at King's College London, teaching Torts law and Criminal law. Whilst there she began studying for an MA in Medical Law and Ethics, which she completed in 1998. In 1997 she moved to take up a lectureship at City University, London where she taught torts law, health care law, criminal law and human rights law. She also taught in the school of journalism, and taught health care law to the schools of nursing and radiography. She designed the law and ethics module for an MSc in Inter-professional mental health care law which she taught for four years and also taught on the MA ( Medical law and ethics) programme at King's. She was a member of City University's Senate Ethics Committee and a founding member of the East London Forum on Ethics and Law Applied to Medicine. Along with colleagues from City University's School of Nursing she organised and presented a series of lectures to university staff on legal and ethical issues in health care practice.
Meredith returned to Perth in late 2004 and took up a senior lectureship at Notre Dame where she is currently teaching torts law and co-ordinating the law review module. Meredith has published in the areas of torts law, criminal law and health care law, with her current research focussing on health care law, specifically looking at the function and definition of consent, and decision-making in relation to minors and incompetent adults. |
