PROGRAMME for 2024-2025
ALL MEETINGS AT THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON unless otherwise stated
but meetings will also be relayed via Zoom and recordings made available
| Date | Name | Subject |
| 10th October 2024 | Dr Sarah Galbraith | Presidential Address – A Military Medico Legal Medley |
| 14th November 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 |
| 12th December 2024
CHANGE OF SPEAKER |
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? |
| 9th January 2025
CHANGE OF TOPIC |
Mr Angus Moon KC, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers | The Assisted Dying Bill in England and Wales: where we are and where we go next |
| 13th February 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 |
| 13th March 2025 | Ms Caroline Harrison KC | Material Contribution Causation in Medical Claims |
| 10th April 2025
CHANGE OF SPEAKER |
Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury MBBS MSc MRCPsych LLM Independent Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist |
How to Survive the Coroner’s Court — A Clinician’s Guide |
| 8th May 2025 | Professor Richard Shepherd, Consultant Forensic Pathologist, BSc, MB, BS, DMJ, FRCPath, FFFLM | Unnatural Deaths |
| 12th June 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 |
| 19th June 2025 | Annual Dinner at The Army & Navy Club | 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 |
Membership is open to anyone interested in Medico-Legal matters. For membership details, see here. Students are welcome and may join at a reduced subscription.
With the exception of the Annual Dinner, or unless otherwise stated, all meetings take place at 7 pm at:
The Medical Society of London
Lettsom House
11 Chandos Street
Cavendish Square
London
W1G 9EB
See below for a map.
Meetings are followed by a drinks reception.
If you have any queries, please contact us.
