School of Law: Law School Staff - David Worswick

David Worswick
BA(ANU), LLB(Adel), GDLP(UniSA), LLM (Flinders)

Associate Lecturer
First Year Mentor

David has worked at the Flinders Law School for 10 years in both research and teaching roles. David is admitted to practice in SA as a barrister and solicitor and has qualifications in law and political science from Adelaide and ANU respectively. He also has significant experience editing law journals.

David has a considerable role in the teaching of the first-year legal programme that integrates skills exercises and academic learning. His role as first-year mentor complements this teaching role across the core topic Legal Method (Legal Research). In addition to coordinating Legal Method, David teaches Administrative Law and coordinates the interviewing component of this topic.

David has completed a Masters degree by thesis about children consenting to medical treatment. A spin off of this was his appointment as an expert advisor to the NSW Law Reform Commission's investigation into the law relating to children consenting to health treatment. David's teaching interests lie in the areas of health law and tort law. He is a specialist health law teacher and teaches Law and Medicine in the years that this popular topic is offered. David has planned, coordinated, and lectured in the postgraduate health law programme at Flinders University and the undergraduate programmes at Flinders and Adelaide Universities. He lectures nurses, dietitians, counsellors, dentists, and doctors on issues of consent, professional regulation, negligence, privacy, and misconduct.

Not surprisingly his research interests encompass medical negligence, tort reform, professional regulation, and public liability. Additionally, he is a health law consultant and has worked with medical defence organisations, government agencies, and health organisations. David has undertaken collaborative work with a Professor of Social Work about the legal regulation of the profession and privacy issues. He is a member of the Department of Human Services' Departmental Ethics and Privacy Committee.

In his spare time he is to be found taking panoramic landscape pictures.