To be a lawyer, you have to accept that you may be disliked.

Sue Chrysanthou presumably knows this well. She is one of the country’s most prominent barristers, having built a career in the court room representing deeply polarising figures — Christian Porter, Alan Jones, Pauline Hanson, Lachlan Murdoch and Gina Rinehart among them.

Earlier this month, she walked into a very different room: a theatre filled with doctors, lawyers and other mental health advocates gathered for the inaugural meeting of the newly formed Australian Society of Psychiatrists.

The subject was the coronial inquest into the Bondi Junction Westfield killings and the alleged failures that preceded that psychosis-fuelled atrocity. The discussion, towards the end of the afternoon, began to settle on the plight of one person: Dr Andrea Boros-Lavack.