Nakkie’s legal career spans over 30 years in personal injury law, including over a decade in Western Australia. She’s compassionate and highly skilled and has secured positive compensation outcomes for hundreds of clients.
Nakkie is Practice Leader and a Senior Associate with Stephen Browne’s Joondalup office. She has the compassion, skill and experience essential for assisting injured people achieve positive claim outcomes.
Nakkie graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Law from Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa and gained over 15 years of broad legal experience before migrating to West Australia in 2009. She gained her legal conversion qualification from Murdoch University and was admitted to West Australian practice in 2011, working exclusively in personal injury law.
Passionate about advocating for clients who were injured through no fault of their own, Nakkie represents clients with claims involving:
Motor vehicle accident law
Public liability law
Workers’ compensation law
Nakkie is a member of the Law Society of Western Australia and the Australian Lawyers Alliance. She’s a past member of the Law Society’s Personal Injury and Workers’ Compensation Committee and of the Australian Lawyers Alliance WA Committee. Nakkie is fluent in Afrikaans. Outside of work, Nakkie participates in competitive keelboat sailing and is a member of her local yacht club.
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Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws (B Proc) from Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg)
Australian legal qualification conversion from Murdoch University
Admitted to practice as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2011
