
Mahen Manokarathas
Email: MManokarathas@codea.com.au
Phone: (02) 9291 7160
International Phone: (+61 2) 9291 7160
Location: Sydney

With over 10 years’ experience helping clients navigate complex and challenging compensation claims, Mahen Manokarathas has built a practice that’s grounded in compassion, attention to detail, and a commitment to achieving fair and timely outcomes.
Mahen has also acted for Defendants and Self-Insured clients. This dual perspective gives him a unique understanding and perspective to each of his clients claims whereby he understands what his injured clients are going through and seek but also understands how Defendants and Insurers think and operate. This allows him to approach each matter strategically and with this unique insight.
He specialises in complex workers compensation, public liability, motor vehicle accident, and third party liability claims.
Mahen is proud to have been recognised by the Law Society of New South Wales as an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury.
“The greatest joy I get from my profession is playing a part in achieving a positive outcome that sets those people that have been injured, through no fault of their own, back on a new path to a brighter future”.
Key Professional Achievements
- He is a Law Society of NSW Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury.
- Mahen completed a Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting & Bachelor of Laws in 2013.
- Mahen was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in July 2014 and the High Court of Australia in 2020.
- Mahen joined Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers in October 2022 as a Special Counsel.
- Mahen is a winner for Arbitration & Dispute Resolution in Mondaq’s Autumn 2024 Thought Leadership Awards for his case summary article on the Mandoukos v Allianz Australia Insurance Limited [2024] NSWCA 71 matter.