Associate Professor
Kelly Purser
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Dr Purser joined the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2011. She is an active member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research ('ACHLR'). She co-established and co-leads the Planning for Healthy Ageing Program, nested within ACHLR. Her research explores:- capacity assessment;
- the intersection between legal and health professionals assessing capacity;
- access to justice where there has been an abuse of enduring documents;
- elder law;
- ageing;
- estate planning;
- succession law; and
- trusts and equity.
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
Capacity Assessment, Decision-Making, Wills, Testamentary Capacity, Enduring Powers of Attorney, Elder Law, Elder Abuse, Estate Planning, Equity and Trusts, ACHLR
Research field
Law, Other Law and Legal Studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of New England)
- Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) (University of New England)
Professional memberships and associations
- Queensland Law Society (QLS)
- QLS Succession Law Committee
- QLS Elder Law Committee
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
- Australasian Law Teachers Association
- Formerly admitted to practice as a legal practitioner, Queensland and New South Wales (2004)
Teaching
Units Taught - Currently Undergraduate
- LLB346 Succession
- LLB205 Equity and Trusts
- LLH473 Independent Research Project
Units Taught - Previously Undergraduate
- LLB103 Alternative Dispute Resolution
- LLB303 Evidence
Masters
- LWN195 Elder Law
- LWN083 Estate Planning
Publications
- Purser, K., (2017). Capacity assessment and the law: Problems and solutions. Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/107933
- Purser, K. & Rosenfeld, T. (2014). Evaluation of legal capacity by doctors and lawyers: the need for collaborative assessment. Medical Journal of Australia, 201(8), 483–485. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/77882
- Lewis, B., Purser, K. & Mackie, K. (2020). The Human Rights of Older Persons: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Elder Law. Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203707
- Purser, K., Cockburn, T. & Crawford, B. (2020). Wills formalities beyond COVID-19: An Australian-United States perspective. University of New South Wales Law Journal Forum, 2020(5), 1–14. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205765
- Purser, K. & Lonie, J. (2019). Mapping dementia and cognitive decline in testamentary capacity. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 66, 1–7. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130574
- Purser, K., Cockburn, T., Cross, C. & Jacmon, H. (2018). Alleged financial abuse of those under an enduring power of attorney: An exploratory study. British Journal of Social Work, 48(4), 887–905. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120338
- Purser, K. & Rosenfeld, T. (2016). Too ill to will? Deathbed wills: assessing testamentary capacity near the end of life. Age and Ageing, 45(3), 334–336. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94420
- Purser, K., Magner, E. & Madison, J. (2015). A therapeutic approach to assessing legal capacity in Australia. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 38, 18–28. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/66757
- Purser, K., (2015). Assessing testamentary capacity in the 21st Century: Is Banks v Goodfellow still relevant? University of New South Wales Law Journal, 38(3), 854–879. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/87003
- Purser, K., Magner, E. & Madison, J. (2009). Competency and capacity: The legal and medical interface. Journal of Law and Medicine, 16(5), 789–802. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/44340
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kelly, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Dissociative survivors of child sexual abuse: obstacles to accessing civil law remedies
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ben Mathews - Disentitling conduct and human rights: a critical analysis of the role of elder abuse in dispute resolution of family provision applications
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Tina Cockburn - Could Conducting Criminal Investigations Into Elder Financial Abuse Within a Human Rights Framework Improve The Criminal Justice Response for Victims of Abuse?
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Tina Cockburn