Brain Injury Conference, Inspire Medilaw Edinburgh. Chair of conference, Monday 14 September 2020.
Annual Expert witness conference Edinburgh Inspire MediLaw. Chair of conference and also speaking on consent at evening presentation, Friday 12 September 2020.
Presentation on Consent: The journey from Hippocrates to paternalism to patient choice, Scottish Spine Surgeons, November 2019 Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
Chair of conference on Medico Legal issues in Emergency Medicine, Inspire Medilaw, Edinburgh October 2019
Presentation: Medical Negligence Update 2019, Royal Faculty of Procurators Annual Conference October 2019
Inspire MediLaw (Medico-Legal issues in General Surgery) – London (11th September 2019) – (https://www.inspiremedilaw.co.uk/event/clinical-negligence-conference-september-2019/) Presenting on consent and causation issues in consent cases.
Presentation: The Legal Duty of Candour in the UK and whether this is consistent with the approach of the UK Supreme Court in Montgomery on the individual patient’s right to information disclosure, at the XXXVIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health Conference, Rome (July 2019)
Inspire MediLaw Expert Witness Training for Medical Professionals (June 2019) Teaching on the law, what is an expert witness and appearing in court.
Chair and speaker (on consent) at Inspire MediLaw Annual Expert Witness Conference (May 2019) Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh
Presentation: National Conference for the Association of Breast Surgeons in Glasgow (May 2019)
Chair at Inspire MediLaw Clinical Negligence Conference (April 2019)
Part of a panel on consent at the Winter Scientific Meeting for the Royal College of Anaesthetists in London (January 2019
Teaching Medical expert witnesses with Inspire Medilaw, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow (December 2018)
Presentation: Difficult issues in Personal Injury Litigation. The Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow Personal Injury Conference (October 2018)
Chairing medico-legal conference for Inspire Medilaw (October 2018)
Invited speaker British Society of Paediatric Dentistry Caird Hall, Dundee on consent (September 2018)
Invited speaker in Barcelona at the Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers at an international session on consent (June 2018)
Presenting on Consent and Risk at Manchester International Living Donor Meeting, Innovations and Controversies (April 2018)
Chairing Negligence in Gynaecology & Obstetrics Conference with Inspire MediLaw, Edinburgh (April 2018)
Medical Negligence update at the annual Personal Injury Conference. Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow (March 2018)
Presentation: Consent and Montgomery 3 years on. Where are we now? Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow (March 2018)
Teaching medical experts with Inspire Medilaw on preparing medical reports and giving evidence in court (January 2018)
Lecture on Quantum issues in orthopaedic, spinal and amputation cases for Orthopaedic Conference with Inspire MediLaw (30 October 2017)
Teaching medical experts on preparing medical reports and giving evidence in court, Inspire Medilaw Oxford (October 2017)
Annual Personal Injury Conference Royal Faculty of Procurators – Presenting on Clinical Negligence and the new rules (October 2015)
Presentation: Montgomery – A new Approach, Royal Faculty of Procurators (2015)
Presentation: Understanding the decision of the Supreme Court in Montgomery – Presentation to DAC Beachcroft English offices (July 2015)
Presentation: Causation in Consent Cases – Where are we now? Ampersand Clinical Negligence Conference (June 2015)
Presentation: The law on Consent to Medical Treatment – University of Glasgow Medico-legal Society (2014)
Presentation: Consent and NM v Lanarkshire Health Board – Medico Legal Management Clinical Negligence Conference (2014)
Co-Chair and organiser of the Ampersand Clinical Negligence Conference (June 2014)
Periodical Payment Orders and Medical Negligence Update – Central Law Training Personal Injury Conference 2014, Glasgow
Presentation: Medical Negligence Update – Central Law Training Personal Injury Conference 2013, Edinburgh
Patient Advisors Day – Talk on negligence to Patient Advisors (2012)
Civil Procedure – Advocates’ Clerks training talk
Multipliers in Personal Injury Actions – (2000,1999,1998) – Legal Services Agency Day Conference on Update on Personal Injury Law
Presentation: Psychological Injury and the Law (2007)
Medico-legal report writing and Giving Evidence in Court Medical Education – for Doctors (2007)
Presentation: Medical Negligence – Day Conference for Morton Fraser (2006)
Presentation: Cerebral Palsy and Brain Injury Claims – Legal Services Agency (2005)
Quantification of claims for Psychological Injury – Legal Services Agency (2004 and 2005)
Presentation: Medical Negligence – Quantification of Claims and Update – The Law Society (2004)
The Dentist and the Law – Royal Odonto – Chirurgical Society of Scotland (3 separate lectures in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee)
Cross examination of witnesses – with Charles Hennessy – Medical Negligence Scottish Young Lawyers
Human Rights and Medical Law – Central Law Training (2002)
Accidents to Children – Central Law Training and Glasgow Graduate School of Law (2002)
Negotiation in Personal Injury Actions – Scottish Young Lawyers Conference (with Professor C Hennessy, Solicitor Advocate)
Limitation in Personal Injury actions- Legal Services Agency (with Hugh Olson, Advocate) – October 2001
Expert witnesses – SLYA October 2001 Day Conference
Preparing a Medical Negligence Action for Court – Scottish Young Lawyers Conference
Children in Reparation Actions – Central Law Training – Fifth Annual Reparation Conference – November 2001
Conduct of a Civil Proof- Scottish Young Lawyers Annual Conference (with Professor C Hennessy, Solicitor Advocate) January 2000
Medical Law and Human Rights – Scottish Young Lawyers Conference October 2000
Preparation of a Reparation Action – Scottish Young Lawyers Annual Conference January 1999
Issues of Evidence in Personal Injury Actions – Glasgow Bar Association January 1998
Preparation of a Medical Negligence Action – Glasgow Bar Association
Fatal Accident Inquiries – SSC February 1996
Preparing and Conducting a Medical Negligence Action – Greens in conjunction with Strathclyde University October 1995
Psychological Injury and Stress at Work Claims – Legal Services Agency Conference
Preparing and Conducting a Medical Negligence Action – Greens in conjunction with Strathclyde University October 1995
Psychological Injury and Stress at Work Claims – Legal Services Agency Conference
Training Course for GP experts on giving evidence in court – with John Sturrock Q.C.