Speaker Details

Ms Belinda Baker

Belinda is a Solicitor Advocate in the New South Wales Crown Solicitor’s Office.  She frequently appears as counsel assisting the coroner in inquests and inquiries in New South Wales.  She also appears in the coronial jurisdiction on behalf of interested parties; and on behalf of the NSW Attorney General in Supreme Court appeals and reviews concerning coronial decisions.

Belinda is a co-author of the 4^th ed of Wallers Coronial Law and Practice in NSW (LexisNexis, 2010); and the author of the Coroners Title in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia.  Belinda also holds a Master of Laws from Harvard University (2004), which she attended as a Menzies Scholar.  

Dr Matthew Large

Dr Large is a practicing clinician with a research interest in the epidemiology of homicide and suicide. He has published more than 40 papers on the topic of risk assessment in mental health.