Keddies director Scott Roulstone said that he expected that these cases “should be able to be resolved within a couple of months”.

Mr Roulstone said he was unable to comment on reports that the State Government’s offer of $12,000 to these women had been rejected as “insulting” and “paltry’.

The Daily Telegraph reported last week that up to 30 women had rejected letters of offer by the Crown Solicitor.

But Mr Roulstone said he believed that the State Government wanted to settle and that the tactic was always to start low with its offers.

“We are in the negotiations phase,” he said.

He believed that settlements could be reached for between 15 and 25 women from the Far South Coast who have made claims for compensations from the State Government, which employed Reeves after he was deregistered as an obstetrician by the NSW Medical Board.

Reeves will face court later this year charged with 69 offences relating to indecent and sexual assault as well as malicious wounding.

Mr Roulstone said that the cases which could be settled were in the lower range of where injury had occurred.

In the higher range, where significant physical and psychological damage had occurred, court action was being prepared on behalf of some of those women seeking larger compensation payments.

He said there were between eight and 15 women in that category being represented by Keddies, “and I know there are others out there”.