Corrie Goodhand is a barrister practising at Maurice Byers Chambers in Sydney. Corrie was admitted to practice in 1999 as a solicitor and was called to the bar in 2015. Corrie has over 25 years legal experience in a variety of areas of the law including criminal law (prosecuting and defending), parole matters, serious offenders, mental health and intentional tort matters. She appears regularly in matters involving extension of forensic status applications in the Supreme Court, before the Mental Health Review Tribunal and in civil and criminal matters generally.
Corrie grew up in Darwin and received her Bachelor of Laws from the Northern Territory University (now known as Charles Darwin University). She has since obtained a Master of Health Law from the University of Sydney, Master of Forensic Mental Health at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Master of Philosophy (Research) at UNSW on ‘A retrospective cohort study of the occurrence of criminal justice system and health contact(s) in persons prior such persons being found Not Guilty by Mental Illness (NGMI), in New South Wales’. In August 2020, Corrie was appointed an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Medicine and Health. She is also the author of Intentional Tort Litigation in Australia, together with Peter O’Brien; and the Supplement to the 3rd Edition of Crime and Mental Health Law in NSW together with Anina Johnson and Kerri Eagle.
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Year of Admission to the Bar
2015