Admission Date

  • Barrister: May 2009
  • Lawyer: May 2008

Qualifications

LLB (First-class Honours) University of NSW
PhD (Neuroscience) University of Sydney
MSc (Neuropsychology) Macquarie University
MA (Counselling) Macquarie University
BA (Psychology Honours) University of Sydney

Previous Occupations

Clinical Neuropsychologist and Senior Research Officer
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute(now Neuroscience Research Australia)

Tipstaff to Justice David Kirby, Supreme Court of New South Wales

Professional Member, Guardianship Tribunal of NSW


Selected Publications

(Full list available on request)

  • Bennett H, Broe GA (2011) The civil standard of proof and the “test” in Briginshaw: Is there a neurobiological basis to being “comfortably satisfied”? (Submitted).
  • Bennett H, Broe GA (2010) Judicial Decision-making and Neurobiology: The role of emotion and the ventromedial cortex in deliberation and reasoning. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 42 (1), 11-18.
  • Bennett H, Broe GA (2009) The Neurobiology of Judicial Decision-making: Indigenous Australians, Native Title, and the Australian High Court, Public Law Review, 20 (2), 112-128.
  • Peisah C, Finkel S, Shulman K, Melding P, Luxenberg J, Heinik J, Jacoby R, Reisberg B, Stoppe G, Barker A, Firmino H, Bennett H (2009) The Wills of older people: Risk factors for Undue Influence (Review), International Journal of Psychogeriatrics, 21(1), 7-15.
  • Bennett HP, Broe GA (2008) Brains, biology, and socio-economic disadvantage in sentencing: Implications for the politics of moral culpability, The Criminal Law Journal, 32, 167-179.
  • Bennett HP, Broe GA (2007) Judicial neurobiology, Markarian synthesis and Emotion: How can the human brain make sentencing decisions? The Criminal Law Journal, 31, 75-90.
  • Bennett HP, Hallen P (2005) Guardianship and Financial Management Legislation: What Doctors in Aged Care need to Know.Internal Medicine Journal, 35, 482-487.

Current Appointments

  • Honorary Senior Research Associate and Clinical Neuropsychologist
    Neuroscience Research Australia
  • Honorary Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist
    Cognitive & Genetic Disorders Clinic,
    Ageing Research Centre,
    Prince of Wales Hospital

Professional Memberships and Bar Association Committees

Legal

  • Member, Bar Association Bar Examination Working Committee
  • Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law

Neuropsychological and Medical

  • Member, APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists
  • Member, Australian Psychological Society
  • Registered, Psychology Board of Australia
  • Member, International Neuropsychological Society
  • Member, Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment
  • Member, International Psychogeriatric Association
  • Member, Alzheimer's Association
  • Member, Australian Association of Gerontology

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