Below is the past programme of the Society since October 2018.
Date | Event | Speaker |
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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 |