Below is the past programme of the Society since October 2018.
| Date | Speaker | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, June 19, 2025 | Lt General (Rtd) Professor Martin CM Bricknell CB OStJ PhD DM MBA MA MedSci, Professor of Conflict, Health and Military Medicine King’s College London, to propose the toast to The Law, The Judge Advocate General, His Honour Judge Large to propose the toast to Medicine | Annual Dinner at The Army & Navy Club |
| Thursday, June 12, 2025 | Antonia Cronin FRCP, Consultant Nephrologist, Guy’s & St Thomas’s Hospital | The ethical and legal landscape of transplantation: Why access to more and better transplants matters |
| Thursday, May 08, 2025 | Professor Richard Shepherd, Consultant Forensic Pathologist, BSc, MB, BS, DMJ, FRCPath, FFFLM | Unnatural Deaths |
| Thursday, April 10, 2025 | Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury MBBS MSc MRCPsych LLM, Independent Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist | How to Survive the Coroner’s Court — A Clinician’s Guide |
| Thursday, March 13, 2025 | Ms Caroline Harrison KC | Material Contribution Causation in Medical Claims |
| Thursday, February 13, 2025 | Dr Michael Biggs B.A. Hons (Victoria University of Wellington), Ph.D. (Harvard), Associate Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford | Evidence for and History of Puberty Suppression as a Treatment for children presenting with Gender Dysphoria |
| Thursday, January 09, 2025 | Mr Angus Moon KC, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers | The Assisted Dying Bill in England and Wales: where we are and where we go next |
| Thursday, December 12, 2024 | Professor Alan Silman, FMedSci, Professor of Musculoskeletal Health, Botnar Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow Green Templeton College, University of Oxford | Eden and Suez – was the botched operation caused by a botched operation? |
| Thursday, November 14, 2024 | Dr Joe Brierley, Consultant Critical Care & Director of Paediatric Bioethics | How disagreements in the care of critically ill children, including the courts, have developed over time |
| Thursday, October 10, 2024 | Dr Sarah Galbraith | Presidential Address – A Military Medico Legal Medley |
| Thursday, May 09, 2024 | Mr Philip Havers KC | Patient confidentiality – existing principles and unusual circumstances |
| Thursday, April 11, 2024 | Prof Rachael Mulheron KC (Hon) B.Com, LLB (Hons), LLM (Advanced) (UQ), D.Phil (Oxon) | Secondary Victims Liability in Medical Negligence: Ring-fenced or Unfenced? |
| Thursday, March 14, 2024 | Dr Michael Powers KC, BSc, MB, BS, DA, FFFLM, LLD (Hon) | Medicine and Law – A view from both sides |
| Thursday, February 08, 2024 | Ms Tamzin Cuming FRCS (Gen Surg), Co-Lead, Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery | Sexual Misconduct in Surgery. What Can Be Done? |
| Thursday, January 11, 2024 | Dr Jonathan Leach OBE, FRCGPGP and Associate Medical Director NHS England | General Medical Practice: Is there a future? |
| Thursday, December 14, 2023 | Dr Jenny Vaughan OBE, PhD, FRCP Consultant Neurologist | Is the criminal law too blunt a tool to use when things go wrong in healthcare? |
| Thursday, November 09, 2023 | Dr Vassilios Hurmusiadis BEng, MA, PhD, and Mr Kevin Sherman MA (Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) FRCS MEd PhD | Simulation-based training in cardiology The role of simulation and AI in medical education |
| Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Dr Simon Wilson, MA FRCPsych, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist | The Fixated Threat Assessment Centre |
| Thursday, June 08, 2023 | Dr Christine Tomkins BSC(Hons) MBChB(Hons) DO FRCS FRCOphth FRCP MBA Retired CEO (September 2021), The Medical Defence Union | Tales of the Unexpected – 36 years of Medical Defence |
| Thursday, May 11, 2023 | Baroness Cumberlege CBE DL | “First do no harm” – Primodos, sodium valproate and surgical mesh |
| Thursday, April 13, 2023 | Professor Mike Tipton MBE, FTPSProfessor of Human & Applied Physiology | Extreme environmental physiology in the dock |
| Thursday, March 09, 2023 | Sir Liam Joseph Donaldson FRCSE FRCP FRCPE FMedSci FRCA. Former Chief Medical Officer for England | Vaccines and Geopolitics |
| Thursday, February 09, 2023 | Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist | County Lines |
| Thursday, January 12, 2023 | Professor Neil Greenberg Professor of Defence Mental Health | Adjustment disorder, moral injury and the Case of Marine ”A” |
| Thursday, December 08, 2022 | Professor Marian Knight MA, MBChB, MPH, DPhil, FFPH, FRCPE Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health | Excess maternal mortality BAME women |
| Thursday, November 10, 2022 | Dr Derek Tracy, Medical Director, West London NHS Trust Senior Lecturer, King’s College London & University College London | Malingering: are doctors exceeding the evidence? |
| Thursday, October 13, 2022 | Simon Readhead K.C., M.A., B.C.L | President’s address: Medicine and Law – Little Territory in Common. |
| Monday, June 20, 2022 | Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws & Professor Iain Hutchison | Annual Dinner at the Apothecaries |
| Thursday, June 09, 2022 | Mr Matthew Izett-Kay BMBS MD MRCOG, Consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist Urogynaecologist, John Radcliffe, Oxford | Urogynaecology and Mesh: Who, why, and where doctors go wrong. |
| Thursday, May 12, 2022 | Mrs Justice Lambert | The Hillsborough Inquest 2014-2016 |
| Thursday, April 14, 2022 | Nicola Mundy, Solicitor, Senior Coroner, SE Yorkshire | BY ZOOM ONLY Deaths and the Smart (or not so Smart?) Motorways |
| Thursday, March 10, 2022 | Philip Barlow H.M. Assistant Coroner for Inner South London | What power the inquisition? Do coroners really make a difference? |
| Thursday, February 10, 2022 | Andrew Hoyle MBBS Barrister LLM MRCGP FRAeS Hon FFFLM | Cyber warfare – does it have a legal basis? Can the UK lawfully protect healthcare from an overseas cyber attack? |
| Thursday, January 13, 2022 | Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury GBS PC Hon FRS President of the Supreme Court from 2012 to 2017 | Personal autonomy: a blessing or a curse |
| Thursday, December 09, 2021 | Colonel James Hardy Forensic Odontologist | Forensic Dentistry and Why Not Bite Marks? |
| Thursday, November 11, 2021 | Lord Jonathan Sumption Justice of the Supreme Court between 2012 and 2018 | The Value of Life – in law and in practice |
| Thursday, October 14, 2021 | Dr Margaret Stark President, Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians. Followed by reception to celebrate our 120th Anniversary | The Forensic Physician – A dying profession |
| Thursday, June 10, 2021 | Tom Kark QC, QEB Hollis Whitman Chambers | The Importance of a transparently independent & professional investigation when things have gone wrong or accusations made |
| Thursday, May 13, 2021 | Dr Christopher A. Jenner MB BS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London, Director, Medicolegal Partners Limited, Medical Director, London Pain Clinic, 9 Harley Street, London, W1G 9QY | The Medicolegal Implications of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) |
| Thursday, April 08, 2021 | Jeremy Chipperfield, HM Coroner for County Durham & Darlington | Rumours, Myths and Realities |
| Thursday, March 11, 2021 | Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor, President’s Envoy for Health at Imperial College London and former Director of Research and Development for the National Heart and Lung Institute | Managing pandemics: – What we have to learn from the work of Austin Bradford Hill |
| Thursday, February 11, 2021 | Dr Nathalie MacDermott, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, King’s College London | What is a Pandemic? |
| Thursday, January 14, 2021 | Dr Gary O’Driscoll, Head of Sports Medicine, Arsenal Football Club | Medical Legal Considerations in Premier League Football |
| Thursday, December 10, 2020 | Professor Robin Ferner, Honorary Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at City Hospital Birmingham, and Honorary Consultant at the West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reactions. | Medicines and Murder |
| Thursday, November 12, 2020 | Dr Margaret Brearley | The Consequences of Torture |
| Thursday, October 08, 2020 | Professor Harry Zeitlin | Presidential Address: Expert Witnesses Past Present & Future |
| Thursday, June 11, 2020 | Dr Rachel Clarke, Nageena Khalique QC & Dr Kathleen Liddell | ONLINE MEETING VIA ZOOM – AGM followed by panel discussion on Covid-19 |
| Thursday, May 14, 2020 | Professor Stephen Holgate CBE,Clinical Professor of Immuno-pharmacology, Medical Research Council | Air Pollution — The Greatest Public Health Risk of our Time CANCELLED – see 2020-2021 Programme |
| Thursday, April 09, 2020 | Christopher P Dorries CBE, HM Coroner for South Yorkshire (West) | Rumours, Myths and Realities CANCELLED – see 2020-2021 Programme |
| Thursday, March 12, 2020 | Bahar Ata, Director of Public Law & Immigration, Duncan Lewis, Solicitors | The Importance of the Medico-Legal Relationship in Immigration Law |
| Thursday, February 13, 2020 | Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform | The Penal System — a Suitable Case for Treatment |
| Thursday, January 09, 2020 | Clem Maddock, Consultant Psychiatrist | Capacity, Conflict & Compensation |
| Thursday, December 12, 2019 | Kathryn Mannix — Palliative Care Doctor | With the End in Mind |
| Thursday, November 14, 2019 | Dr Michael Norton BDS, FDS, RCS (Ed) | When Dental Implants go Wrong |
| Thursday, October 10, 2019 | Mr Henry Marsh CBE, FRICS, Neurosurgeon | Why is it so difficult for Doctors to be Honest? — Minty Lecture |
| Thursday, June 13, 2019 | Professor Penney Lewis, School of Law & Ethics, Kings College London | Should Assisted Dying require the consent of a High Court Judge? |
| Monday, May 20, 2019 | The Apothecaries Hall, Black Friars Lane London EC4V 6EJ. Speakers: The Rt Hon Lady Justice Nicola Davies DBE will propose the toast to “Medicine” and Dame Clare Marx, Chair of the GMC and past President of the Royal College of Surgeons will propose the toast to “the Law” | ANNUAL DINNER |
| Thursday, May 09, 2019 | Chris Hopson, Chief Executive NHS Providers | Can the NHS as we know it reach its 100th Birthday or is it now in Palliative Care? |
| Thursday, April 11, 2019 | Catherine Drennan, Head of Legal Dept, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority | Assisted Fertility – the legal and ethical issues |
| Thursday, March 14, 2019 | Charles Clayton, Chief Executive and Dr James de Courcy, Chair of Trustees of the Primary Trauma Care Foundation. PLEASE NOTE This is a change to the advertised programme | Global surprise: the leading cause of death and disability in young people, and what we are doing about it. |
| Thursday, February 14, 2019 | His Honour Peter Rook QC | The Prosecution of Sexual Offences in 2019 including medical issues that arise in respect of consent and capacity |
| Thursday, January 10, 2019 | Professor Sir Norman Williams MS FRCS FMedSci FRCP FRCP(Edin) FRCA FDS(Hon) FACS(Hon) FRCSI(Hon) FRCSEd(Hon), Chairman National Clinical Improvement Programme (NCIP), Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London | When Things Go Wrong – Gross Negligent Manslaughter in Healthcare |
| Thursday, December 13, 2018 | Dr Bernadette Wren, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust | Ethico-Legal Issues arising in the care of Gender-Variant Children and Adolescents |
| Thursday, November 08, 2018 | Lady Justice Hallett | Objectivity in an Adversarial System |
| Thursday, October 11, 2018 | Sir Robert Francis QC, President of the Medico-Legal Society | Medical Professionalism in the 21st Century |
