Past programme

Below is the past programme of the Society since October 2018.

Date	Event	Speaker
11/10/2018	Medical Professionalism in the 21st Century	Sir Robert Francis QC, President of the Medico-Legal Society
08/11/2018	Objectivity in an Adversarial System	Lady Justice Hallett
13/12/2018	Ethico-Legal Issues arising in the care of Gender-Variant Children and Adolescents	Dr Bernadette Wren, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust
10/01/2019	When Things Go Wrong – Gross Negligent Manslaughter in Healthcare	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
14/02/2019	The Prosecution of Sexual Offences in 2019 including medical issues that arise in respect of consent and capacity	His Honour Peter Rook QC
14/03/2019	Global surprise: the leading cause of death and disability in young people, and what we are doing about it.	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
11/04/2019	Assisted Fertility – the legal and ethical issues	Catherine Drennan, Head of Legal Dept, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
09/05/2019	Can the NHS as we know it reach its 100th Birthday or is it now in Palliative Care?	Chris Hopson, Chief Executive NHS Providers
20/05/2019	ANNUAL DINNER	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”
13/06/2019	Should Assisted Dying require the consent of a High Court Judge?	Professor Penney Lewis, School of Law & Ethics, Kings College London
10/10/2019	Why is it so difficult for Doctors to be Honest? — Minty Lecture	Mr Henry Marsh CBE, FRICS, Neurosurgeon
14/11/2019	When Dental Implants go Wrong	Dr Michael Norton BDS, FDS, RCS (Ed)
12/12/2019	With the End in Mind	Kathryn Mannix — Palliative Care Doctor
09/01/2020	Capacity, Conflict & Compensation	Clem Maddock, Consultant Psychiatrist
13/02/2020	The Penal System — a Suitable Case for Treatment	Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform
12/03/2020	The Importance of the Medico-Legal Relationship in Immigration Law	Bahar Ata, Director of Public Law & Immigration, Duncan Lewis, Solicitors
09/04/2020	Rumours, Myths and Realities CANCELLED – see 2020-2021 Programme	Christopher P Dorries CBE, HM Coroner for South Yorkshire (West)
14/05/2020	Air Pollution — The Greatest Public Health Risk of our Time CANCELLED – see 2020-2021 Programme	Professor Stephen Holgate CBE,Clinical Professor of Immuno-pharmacology, Medical Research Council
11/06/2020	ONLINE MEETING VIA ZOOM – AGM followed by panel discussion on Covid-19	Dr Rachel Clarke, Nageena Khalique QC & Dr Kathleen Liddell
08/10/2020	Presidential Address: Expert Witnesses Past Present & Future	Professor Harry Zeitlin
12/11/2020	The Consequences of Torture	Dr Margaret Brearley
10/12/2020	Medicines and Murder	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.
14/01/2021	Medical Legal Considerations in Premier League Football	Dr Gary O’Driscoll, Head of Sports Medicine, Arsenal Football Club
11/02/2021	What is a Pandemic?	Dr Nathalie MacDermott, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, King’s College London
11/03/2021	Managing pandemics: – What we have to learn from the work of Austin Bradford Hill	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
08/04/2021	Rumours, Myths and Realities	Jeremy Chipperfield, HM Coroner for County Durham & Darlington
13/05/2021	The Medicolegal Implications of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)	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
10/06/2021	The Importance of a transparently independent & professional investigation when things have gone wrong or accusations made	Tom Kark QC, QEB Hollis Whitman Chambers
14/10/2021	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
11/11/2021	Lord Jonathan Sumption Justice of the Supreme Court between 2012 and 2018	The Value of Life – in law and in practice
09/12/2021	Colonel James Hardy Forensic Odontologist	Forensic Dentistry and Why Not Bite Marks?
13/01/2022	Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury GBS PC Hon FRS President of the Supreme Court from 2012 to 2017	Personal autonomy: a blessing or a curse
10/02/2022	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?
10/03/2022	Philip Barlow H.M. Assistant Coroner for Inner South London	What power the inquisition? Do coroners really make a difference?
14/04/2022	Nicola Mundy, Solicitor, Senior Coroner, SE Yorkshire	BY ZOOM ONLY Deaths and the Smart (or not so Smart?) Motorways
12/05/2022	Mrs Justice Lambert	The Hillsborough Inquest 2014-2016
09/06/2022	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.
20/06/2022	Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws & Professor Iain Hutchison	Annual Dinner at the Apothecaries