The case arrives
You send the file. We confirm what's needed and begin the work — quietly, and in confidence.
Pre-launch · Founding cohort open
Medical negligence · merits assessed in full
Hand us the merits question.
We do the work. You decide.
Whitakr takes the full merits workup off your hands — records, instructions, expert medical input, and a considered view on whether to proceed. You only pay if you do.
The problem
Knowing whether a claim is worth running
takes more than a day of senior time.
20+
hours
of a senior lawyer's time to form a view on a single claim's merits — and if the case is run and later fails, that work is lost entirely.
How it works
Three steps. One clear answer.
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01
You send the case
A secure handover — the file, and what you already know. We take it from there.
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02
We do the workup
Records, instructions, the merits, and expert medical input — handled end to end.
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03
You decide
A clear view to act on. You only pay if you proceed.
The workup, in full
A single case,
examined with care.
Records requested & chased
We request the medical records — and follow them up, again and again, until they are in hand.
Instructions taken
Where it matters, we take the client's account — their words, their recollection, their concerns.
Merits examined
Breach, causation, and the standard of care — weighed with the rigour the question deserves.
The expert panel
Practising doctors test the clinical merits against the standards a court would expect.
The view returned
A clear, considered position on whether the claim is worth running. You review it, and you decide.
What we do
Four kinds of work,
handled in full.
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01
Records
Requested, chased, and assembled. We pursue every record until the file is complete — the part that quietly consumes the most time.
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02
Instructions
Taken from the client where it matters — their account, in their own words — so nothing material is missed.
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03
Merits
Breach, causation, and the standard of care, examined with rigour — the substance of whether a claim will hold.
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04
Expert panel
The clinical merits tested with practising doctors, against the standards a court would expect.
What you receive
A clear view.
Yours to act on.
At the end of the workup you receive a considered position on whether the claim is worth running — the reasoning behind it, and what it rests on. Clear enough to act on at a glance, thorough enough to stand behind.
It arrives ready for your existing process, with no disruption. You retain complete discretion over what happens next.
A considered view
Worth running, or a clear reason not to.
The reasoning, in full
What the view rests on, laid out plainly.
Ready for your process
It drops into how your firm already works.
Your decision, always
You hold conduct. The choice to proceed is yours.
Confidence & confidentiality
Handled with care,
held in confidence.
Sensitive medical records are handled securely and treated in the strictest confidence, in line with Australian privacy law. A client's matter is only ever seen by those who need to see it.
They told us whether it was worth running before we'd committed a thing.
How we work together
A conversation,
shaped to your firm.
Every engagement begins with a discussion. We shape the work around how your firm runs, and the matters you see most often. There is one principle we hold to.
You pay only
if you proceed.
No cost on a case you decline. When our view is that a claim isn't worth running, that costs you nothing.
Founding firms
We're opening to
five founding firms.
Before we open more widely, a small number of firms will shape how Whitakr works — and keep first call on our time. Founding places close at launch on 1 July 2026.
A limited founding cohort.
By application — we take only the firms and matters we believe in.