Ruth Slater

Background

About Ruth Slater

Ruth has practiced almost exclusively in defendant based insurance litigation since 1992. She joined HBA Legal in January 2015 from a career covering practice at Clayton Utz, Downings Legal (aka Barker Gosling) and Crisp Civitella Slater / CCS Insurance Law, acting for government agencies and numerous insurers and self insureds. She also has six years concurrent experience in the Comcare system providing legal advice on workers’ compensation claims to large companies. Ruth has extensive experience in pre-trial and conciliation conferences and instructing in trials, appeals, arbitrations, mediations and hearings in the Conciliation and Arbitration Service, AAT, District Court, Supreme and High Courts. Areas of Expertise Ruth is an expert in CTP, public liability and workers’ compensation. As a senior lawyer and partner, Ruth is responsible for ensuring the quality of all work prepared on her matters, ensuring best outcomes across advice on evidence, and assessment of compensation and damages for different losses (utilising differing thresholds, exclusions and methods of assessment). Ruth has been recognised in the 2019 to 2024 Doyles Guides in her areas of practice as a recommended WA practitioner in Workers Compensation and Compulsory Third Party. In 2024 she was again recognised in the Australian Financial Review’s Best Lawyers for her work as an Insurance Lawyer and Litigation Lawyer in Perth. Why clients like her Ruth highly values client relationships and the importance of understanding a client’s business and its priorities to ensure a solution that works into the future. Focusing on the bigger picture, she considers systemic issues and processes to improve the way the business operates, an approach that has seen her maintain clients over two decades.