Lawyer
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Liesbeth Lafaut focuses on medical law and healthcare law in the broad sense.
She advises clients, mediates, and conducts proceedings concerning the application of legislation governing hospitals, medical liability law, pharmaceutical law and life sciences, legislation on medical devices, the RIZIV legislation, deontology, the status of the healthcare provider, the status of patients, and regarding the cooperative relationships and partnerships between healthcare providers.
She represents numerous players in the healthcare sector, such as physicians, healthcare institutions, companies active in healthcare, and paramedics.
CredentialsLiesbeth is often a keynote speaker at seminars and study days on specific subject matters in medical law and healthcare law.
She has written numerous articles on medical law that are published in various legal journals.
Liesbeth is recommended in Legal 500 for the category Healthcare and Life Sciences.
EducationLiesbeth Lafaut is a Licentiate in Law (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2007), and Licentiate specialised in Criminology (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2003). From January to June 2007, she studied at Université Montesquieu in Bordeaux.
Liesbeth Lafaut was admitted to the Leuven Bar in 2007 where she started to focus her career on medical law and healthcare law.
She was admitted to the Antwerp Bar in 2011, and that that time, she developed the medical law practice group at the Antwerp office of Monard Law.
In September 2016, she joined Arcas Law, where she heads the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences practice group.
ExpertiseLanguagesDutch,French,English