Previous Presentations
2023 - 2024
September
Experiences of Court of Protection matters
October
Challenges faced by an expert in cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions with the unprecedented advances in the last two decades
November
Inquests into deaths in Lakanal House: have any lessons been learned?
January
The State of our Nation’s Prisons
February
Cauda Equina Syndrome
March
Fitness to Plead and Capacity
2022 - 2023
September
Secondary Victim Claims for Psychiatric Injury: How Close is Close Enough?
October
Minimising risk in peri-operative care. Presenting the best version of yourself for surgery.
November
Clinical Negligence Claims Arising During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
January
Working Psychologically with Mental Health Needs in a Remand Prison Environment.
February
Neonatal Brain Injury - a Medico-legal Perspective.
March
The Top 10 Medico-Legal Issues for GPs.
2021 – 2022
September
Mental Health, Moral Injury and the Case of Marine A
October
Brexit: a Moveable Feast for People, Products and Services?
November
Causation - the Search for Clarity
January
Recent Medical Advances for the Care of Amputees
February
The Changing Landscape and NHS Resolution’s Role
March
Why Patients Die on the Operating Table
2020 – 2021
September
Fraud and Fundamental Dishonesty in Clinical Negligence Claims
October
An Overview of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal
November
Why Civility Saves Lives
January
Assisted Dying Debate – Two Points of View
1) Why the present law is cruel and access to a dignified death is a human right for terminally ill people
2) The unintended consequences of licensing doctors to provide lethal drugs
February
Bedwetting – A Hidden Menace
March
The Cromford Taxi Murder
2019 – 2020
September
Capacity, Conflict and Compensation
October
Current Challenges for Patient Safety and Access to Justice
November
Decision-making and Resolving Serious Medical Treatment Disputes
January
Nerve Agents: A Higher Form of Killing?
February
Chronic Pain from a Legal Perspective
March
The Effect of Medico-legal Reports on Therapy and the Therapeutic Relationship
2018 – 2019
September
Malpractice, Witchcraft and the Doctors in the Dock: 1500- 1700
October
Pitch side tests for concussion
November
The evolution of consent
January
The work of the coroner
February
The naked surgeon
March
Injustice in Person
2017 – 2018
September
An uncertain tightrope to walk?
October
Murder at Stepping Hill Hospital
November
The need for courts to deal with cases on the basis of evidence which cannot be disclosed and how it is done
January
Cruel Twists and Cautionary Cases: Medicolegal aspects of Paediatric Urology
February
Lessons to be learned on prison suicide from the Harris review
March
Behind Closed Doors