Aswini Weereratne
Aswini Weereratne specialises in mental health, medical and public law, and has appeared before mental health review tribunals, discretionary lifer panels, public inquiries and coroners. She has been counsel in a number of inquiries relating to mental health care and treatment, and has chaired six independent homicide inquiries commissioned by various health authorities. She has an in-depth knowledge of the provision of mental health and other services, especially in the community. She is similarly well versed in issues concerning dangerousness, and the overlap in the criminal justice and mental health jurisdictions. Her public law work has been almost exclusively in the area of mental health dealing with issues under the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Human Rights Act 1998. Since 2001 she has been a part-time legal chair of the Mental Health Review Tribunal (southern region).
