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1975

Inaugural Dinner:


The Original Council





Symposium: Road Accidents     


Dragonara Hotel
Speaker The Rt Hon Lord Justice Ormerod        

President      Dr John Apley
Secretaries   Mr Hugh Roberts (medical)
                    Mr Malcolm Cotterill (legal)
Members      Mr Richard Gaskell, Mr Ken Gibson, Mr James Black,
                    Dr Jim Barber, Dr Ian Bailey, Mr Jack Ross
                  
Invited speaker Dr GH McKay:, Reader in Traffic Safety, Univ of Reading
              with  Mr H Griffiths: New light on concussion
                      Mr RW Hiles: Facial injuries
                      Mr PH Roberts: Intrusion injuries of lower limbs
                      Mr P Fallon QC: Legal aspects
Feb 28th








October 22nd

1976

Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting
AGM

Ordinary Meeting
9 vintages of Ch Batailly

Ordinary Meeting


Dragonara Hotel
Speaker Mr William Rees-Mogg. Editor, The Times    

Shortage of Transplant Organs: Medical and Legal Aspects
Prof Roy Yorke Calne FRS   

Senior Vice Squad Officer: Drug Abuse
Elected President: The Hon Mr Justice Park

Mr Donald Hawkins, HM Deputy Coroner: Function of the Coroner's Office
Wine Tasting: Mr John Avery

The Role and Work of the Private Forensic Scientist   
Dr Julius Grant                        
Feb 27th 


May 5th 


Sept 30th


Nov 12th


Dec 2nd
1977

Annual Dinner
Ch Grangey 1962 

Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting
Royal West of England Academy
Speaker Barry Hudson QC                

Legal Aspects of Family Breakdown: Mr Geoffrey Parmenter    
Homicide in Porphyria: Dr Peter Trafford
Preparation of Medical Reports: Mr James Black

The Bishops' Palace, Wells

"How Much force Was Required To Produce This Injury?"
Prof Bernard Knight                    

The Black Panther Trial
Mr Gilbert Gray QC  

Feb 25th 
 

Apr 20th



July 15th

Sep 22nd


Nov 18th
1978
Annual Dinner


Summer Social Gathering

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Ordinary Meeting;

AGM

Wine Tasting

Royal West of England Academy
Speaker: HH Judge McCreary                

The Bishops' Palace, Wells

Organised Crime
Det Chief Inspector  George Barton, Coordinator, South West Regional Crime Squad                
       
Poisoning Forensically, Some Reflections and Doubts   
Dr Roy Goulding, Director, Poisons Unit, New Cross Hospital                     
Elected President: Prof John Mitchell

Harveys Wine Museum
Feb 17th 


June

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Nov 16th

 

Dec 6th
1979
Ordinary Meeting

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Annual Dinner


Members' Papers



Summer Social Meeting

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting

Cancelled: bad weather

Operation Julie
Ian Kennedy QC

Royal West of England Academy
Speaker: Sir Michael Swann FRS, Chairman, the BBC

Dr Robin Weller: Arsenic to Anaesthesia
Mr RJ Grogan: Tyre Marks as Evidence
Mr Hugh Roberts: Metallic implants in the Human Body

The Bishops Palace, Wells

Clues at the Scene
Prof Keith Simpson

Crime and Personality
Prof HJ Eynsenk
Jan 19th

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Feb 23rd


May 10th



June 29th

Sept 20th


Dec 6th
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1980

Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner
Pisse Dru 1979

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Summer Social Gathering

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AGM

Recent Progress in the Scientific Detection of Crime
Mr S Kind

Royal West of England Academy
Speaker The Rt Hon Lord Justice (Fred) Lawton

Mr ERF Deal: Motoring Law
Dr Ivor Doney: 'Poisoning can be fun!'
Dr J Naish: Hysteria
Dr PA Trafford: Dartmoor Prison in the 1860s

Goldney Hall

Role of the Expert Witness Called by the Defence
Dr Julius Grant

Sexual Violence, Fact or Fantasy?
Mrs Margaret Puxon MD FRCOG Barrister
Elected President Prof David Berry MDS PhD

Jan 17th


Feb 29th


May 29th



July 4th

Sept 18th


November 21st

1981

Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner


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Summer Social Meeting

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Does Murder Have a Message?
Dr AC Hunt, Home Office Pathologist

Royal West of England Academy
Speaker: Sir Reginald Murley PRCS

Dr Gisli Gudjonson:, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
Lie Detection

David Berry: Whose skull was this?
Roderick Denyer: Nervous shock
Philip Goulding: What to do with a drunken partner

Goldney Hall; Bristol Early Music Consort

Confessional Evidence: 'That's not what I meant to say'.
Dr AMP Kellam, Consultant Psychiatrist

The Royal Commission: Misguided Reform of the Criminal System.
Dr John Baldwin, Dr Michael McConville, Birmingham University Faculty of Law
Jan 15th


Feb 27th


March 19th


May 14th





Sept 17th


Nov 19th
1982
Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner
Guimarra Cabernet Sauvignon


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Members' Papers

Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


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Beaujolais nouveau

The Yorkshire Ripper
Prof DJ Gee

Royal West of England Academy
Speaker: Richard Du Cann QC



The Armoury of the Terrorist
Mr HJ Yallop OBE, MSc FRIC





What You Eat Is My Business
Mr Braxton Reynolds; Public Analyst, Devon County Council

The Development of Victim Support Services
Dame Helen Reeves; National Officer, National Association of Victims Support Schemes
Elected President: HH Judge Sir Ian Lewis
Subscription raised to £6
Jan 21st


Feb 26th




March 18th


May 20th

July 2nd

Sept 16th


Nov 18th
1983
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Annual Dinner


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'The Right to Recover'
Dr John Wall; Secretary, Medical Defence Union

The Council House
Speaker: Prof Alan Usher, Home Office Pathologist

The Right to Life
Michael Bell MA Chairman, Association of Lawyers for the Defence of the Unborn

Mr Jeffrey Phillips: The Bristol Accident Advice Scheme
Dr Yvonne Wiley: 'Unfit To Plead'
Dr Peter Trafford: Diminished Responsibility

Hiatt Baker Hall
Speaker: Dr John Parkes BBC: Wildlife through the Camera

'Don't Die Abroad' - The problems of investigating death from overseas
Dr Michael Green, Dept of Forensic Medicine, University of Leeds

Dialect and Voice Identification
Mr Stanley Ellis MA MIL, School of English, University of Leeds
Jan 20th


Feb 25th


March 17th



May 19th



July 8th


Oct 20th


Nov 19th
1984
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Annual Dinner


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The Shroud of Turin
Prof James Cameron FRCPath, Department of Forensic Medicine, The London Hospital

The Council House
Speaker: Gilbert Gray QC

Drug Abuse
Chairman: Dr Martin Gay FRCPsych, Consultant Child Psychiatrist
Panel:
Chief Inspector Tim Bryan, Head Avon and Somerset Drug Squad
Dr Julie Parker, Research Registrar, Avon Drug Abuse Monitoring Project
Dr Robert Reaves, Consultant Psychiatrist
Mr Dudley Thomas, Solicitor, Trump and Partners

Tim Chambers: Treatment of Renal Failure in Children
Brian Cummins: Common Problems in Head Injury
Michael Furmston: Informed Consent
Ivor Doney: 'Please Pardon the Smell'

Wills Hall

'Dead Men Tell No Tales'
Professor David Bowen, Forensic Pathologist, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School

The Role of the Firearms Examiner
Mr Peter Prescott, Forensic Science Laboratory, Huntingdon
Elected President Mr Charles Clarke

Jan 19th



Feb 24th


March 15th







May 17th




July 6th

Oct 18th



Nov 15th
1985
Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner


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Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting
AGM
Surgery in the Egyptian Old Kingdom
Professor John Nunn, Dept of Anaesthesia, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow

The Council House
Speaker: Professor Alan Usher OBE FRCPath

In the Underworld
Professor Laurie Taylor, Dept of Sociology, University of York

Professor John Clamp: Sailing Under False Colours
Professor Gordon Stirrat: Capable of Being Born Alive
Dr Robert Reeves: Wives Who Kill Their Husbands

Gatcombe Court

Forensic Mythology
Professor Bernard Knight, University of Wales College of Medicine

Judging Women
Dr Pat Carlen, Department of Law, University of Keele
Jan 17th


Feb 22nd


March 21st


May 16th



July 5th

Oct 17th


Nov 21st
Home page

1986

Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner



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Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

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AGM
Psychiatrist at a Seige
Prof John Gunn, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry

The Council House
Speaker: Prof Eric Wilkes, Professor.of General Practice, University of
Sheffield

The Gorgei Markov Case
Mr Robin Keeley, Metropolitan Police Laboratory

Dr Peter Trafford: Dartmoor Prison and the American Prisoners in 1813-15
Mr Dudley Thomas: Humour in the Court
Dr Robin Weller: Don't even get ill abroad

Hiatt Baker Hall

Sir Samuel Garth, the Dispensary Poet
Sir Christopher Booth

Prosecution - In the Public Interest?
Dr Jacqueline Tombs
Elected President: Dr Ivor Doney

Jan 16th


Feb 28th



March 27th


May 15th



July 4th

Sep25th


Nov 27th

1987

Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting


Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting
AGM
"Heads and Tales"
Mr Richard Neave

The Council House
Speaker: Dr Douglas Acres OBE: Chairman, The Magistrates' Association

Current Issues In Sentencing
Dr DA Thomas LLD, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Rupert Bursell QC: The Water Newton Hoard
Clive Gingell FRCS: Impotence - Fact Or Fiction?
David Ransom: Pure, White and Deadly

The Downs School, Wraxall

The Hindawi Case
Mr Gilbert Gray QC

Medico-Legal aspects of Biblical Deaths
Dr David Filer MD, Police Surgeon

Jan 29th


Feb 27th


March 26th


May 21st



July 18th

Sept 28th


Nov 26th
1988
Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting


Members' Papers




Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting

AGM

The Princes in the Tower
Dr Theya Molleson

The Council House
Speaker: Sir David Innes-Williams FRCS, Chairman ICRF

Strange Tales From Canada and Australia
Prof Derrick Pounder: Dept of Forensic Pathology, Dundee

John Westacott: Conciliation in Divorce: A Contradiction in Terms?
Ian Bailey: Should there be legally required requests for organ donation?
Ken Gibson: Payment of experts' fees - avoiding the pitfalls
David McCoy: Spencer Wells

Zoo

Genetic Fingerprinting
Mr Ron Yaxley, Cellmark Diagnostics

Forensic Aspects of Documents
Mr David Ellis, Motropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory
Elected President: HH Judge John da Cunha
Jan 28th


Feb 26th


March 26th


May 19th




July 21st

Oct 5th


Nov 24th
1989
Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting


Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting
AGM
Measures against International Terrorism
Maj Gen Richard Clutterbuck

The Council House
Speaker: Mr John Rayne FDSRCS

Medico-Legal Aspects of Defective Hearing
Prof Ronald Hinchcliffe

Rosalind Stanwell-Smith: Doctor Snoddy's Revenge
Campbell Mackenzie: The Forgotten Physician
Clive Gingell: The Sex Offender - Is There an Alternative to Prison?

Zoo

The Problems of Drug-Taking in Sport
Mr Peter Coni OBE QC

Taking Children's Rights Seriously
Ivor Doney in lieu of Prof Freeman (DNA)

Jan 26th


Feb 24th


March 22nd


May 11th



July 7th

Oct 26th


Nov 23rd
1990
Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting



Members' Papers



Ordinary Meeting


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AGM
Fiat Justitia: The Trial of Terrorist Offences
The Hon Mr Justice Carswell

The Council House
Speaker: Lord Carlisle of Bucklow PC QC DL

Helping the Police With Their Enquiries: Recent Developments in Psychological Research on the Profiling of Offenders
Robin Keeley in lieu of Professor David Cantor (DNA)

Tim Chambers: Euthanasia
James Wisheart: Coronary Artery Surgery
Elizabeth Roberts: Legal Aspects of Transexual Surgery

Crimewatch UK - The Making of the Programme
Helen Phelps, Nicki Cheetham. Researcher, Producer BBC Television

The Hungerford Massacre
Dr Richard Shepherd, Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, UMDS of Guy's and St Thomas's
Elected President: Mr Hugh Roberts
Jan 26th


Feb 23rd


March 29th



May 16th 1990



Oct 25th


Nov 22nd
Home page

1991

Ordinary Meeting



Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting



Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting

AGM
Wombs For Hire - Surrogacy
Prof Sir Malcolm MacNaughton, Muirhead Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Glasgow

The Council House
Speaker: The Hon Mr Justice (Charles) Mantell

The Huguenot Murders
Dr David Whittaker, Department of Basic Dental Science, University of Wales College of Medicine

Desmond O'Neill: Driving and Dementia
Colin Sara: Racial Discrimination
Ronald Pigott: "Up your nose" - Some problems of communication



The Psychology of Error
Mr JW Chappelow, Principal Psychologist, RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine

In Defence of Fault
Mr MAMS Leigh, Solicitor, Hempsons
Subscription raised to £12

Jan 24th



Feb 22nd


March 13th



May 15th





Oct 24th


Nov 21st

1992

Ordinary Meeting



Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting


Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting

AGM

Medical Aspects of Motor Racing
MR ES Watkins FRCS, Professor of Neurosurgery, Royal London Hospital, Chief Medical Officer GP Racing

The Council house
Speaker Mr George Bonney FRCS

The Investigation of Serial Murder
Prof MA Green, Forensic Pathologist, Sheffield

Adrian James: Law and disorder; the link between crime and mental disorder
John Royce: Murder Most Curious
Hugh Roberts: The History of Artificial Hip Replacement

SS Great Britain

Hostage Debriefing
Dr David Stephens: Psychiatrist, Princess Alexandra Hospital, RAF Wroughton

Bog Bodies
Mr JB Bourke FRCS, Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Nottingham
Elected President: HH Judge Malcolm Cotterill

Jan 30th



Feb 28th


March 12th


May 7th



July 10th

Oct 15th


Nov 26th
1993
Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting



Members' Papers

Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting
AGM

Sport and the Law: Flanneled Fools and Muddied Oafs
Mr Edward Grayson, Barrister

The Council House
Speaker: Professor David Purdie

Death in the Bush
Dr Ian West FRCPath, DMJ Consultant Forensic Pathologist, UMDS Guy's and St Thomas's





The Kaleidoscope Project - A Community Response to Druge Use
The Rev Eric Blakeborough MBE

Persistent Vegetative State, Medical Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
Prof Bryan Jennett OBE FRCS, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow
Jan 21st


Feb 26th


March 25th



May 6th

July 9th

Oct  7th

1994
Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting



Members' Papers


Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting

Ordinary Meeting


AGM

Coroner in the Capital
Dr Paul Knapman MB BS, DMJ Barrister. HM Coroner Inner West London

The Council House
Speaker:  The Hon Mr Justice (Harry) Ognall

Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy Child Abuse
Professor Roy Meadow MA FRCP, Professor of Paediatrics, St James's University Hospital, Leeds

Ivor Doney: Is your bite-mark as good as it should be?
Stephan Jordan: Why Patients sue their doctors, a cardiologist's view



A Resurrection
Dr Hugh White MRCPath DMJ

Identification of the Romanov Family by DNA Profiling
Dr Peter Gill BSc PhD, Forensic Science Service, Birmingham
Elected President: Mr Jack Ross

Jan 20th


Feb 25th


March 24th



May 5th


July 8th

Oct 13th


Nov 24th
1995
Ordinary Meeting



Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting



Members' Papers

Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting



Ordinary Meeting
AGM

Adolescent Murderers
Dr Martin Gay MD FRCPsych DPM DCH  Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Bristol

The Council House
Speaker: Dr David A Pyke CBE MD FRCP

Windsor Castle and More
Mr Andrew Wade, MSc Senior Scientific Officer, Metropolitan Police Fire Investigation Unit





The Pathology of Terrorism
Prof Jack Crane MRCPath, DMJ, State Pathologist and Professor of Forensic Medicine, The Queen's University of Belfast

Poetry, Prose and Paintings in War
Dr J Campell MacKenzie FRCP, Consultant Nephrologist, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Jan 19th



Feb 24th


March 23rd



May 4th

July 7th

Oct 12th



Nov 30th
Home page

1996

Ordinary Meeting



Annual Dinner
Domaine des Ormeaux, Lussac Saint Emilion


Ordinary Meeting


Members' Papers




Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting



Ordinary Meeting

AGM

Special Meeting
Samuel Pepys and His Doctors
Mr Alan Amias,  Gynaecologist, Former Medical Director, St George's Hospital Medical School

The Council House
Speaker: Dr AW (Sandy) Macara, President BMA



Forensic Fraud
Mr Hugh Tyrynis Thomas MD FRCS FRCS(C) Consultant Lecturer in Surgery

Tim Chambers: Phenylketonuria, and Care Proceedings: Sledgehammers and Nuts?
Elizabeth MacKenzie: Cervical Screening: To Sue or Not To Sue?
Richard Barnard: WG Grace, Cricketer and Medical Man Extraordinary

Royal West of England Academy

Serial Murder - Forensic Dental Investigation in the West Case
Dr David Whittaker BDS PhD FDSRCS, Reader in Oral biology and Forensic Dentistry, University of Wales College of Medicine

Bogus Doctors, Getting In, Getting On and Getting Out of Medicine
Dr Joanne Hartland PhD, Senior Researcher, Cardiff Health Authority
Elected President: Dr Robin Weller

Tour of the new Crown Court, Small Street

Jan 18th



Feb 23rd




March 21st


May 2nd




July 5th

Oct 10th



Nov 28th



Dec 5th
Dec 12th

1997

Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner
Rouge Homme, Coonawarra 1993 Shiraz/Sauvignon

Ordinary Meeting


Members' Papers




Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting
AGM

Special Meeting
What's New in Medical Ethics?
Prof A Campbell, Professor of Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol

The Council House
Speaker: Prof James Owen Drife,  Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Leeds


The Bedminster Body in Concrete
Dr Hugh White, Consultant Forensic Pathologist, Southmead Hospital

Nigel Mercer: My journeys to Russia to operate on "the Red Kids"
Thurston Brewin: Premum non nocere: above all, do no harm
Charles Clarke: The Clarke War Letters - Legal and Medical Soldiers - 1914-16

Leigh Court, Abbot's Leigh

The Mary Rose - Work from the burials from the ship.
Dr Anne Stirland, Human Skeletal Biologist and Paloepathologist

Forensic Entomology
Dr Bryan Turner

Wine Tasting
Avery's Culver Street Cellars

Jan  23rd


Feb 28th



March 27th



May 1st




July 4th

Oct 9th


Nov 12th


Dec 4th
1998
Ordinary Meeting


Annual Dinner
Portada (Estramadura) 1995 Tinto

Ordinary Meeting


Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Members Papers


AGM

Special Meeting
The Pathologist's Contribution to Fatal Accident Investigations
Air Commodore Tony Cullen RAF

The Council House
Speaker: Prof Walter Nimmo


The Right to Die
Margaret Branthwaite, Barrister, Consultant Anaesthetist

Richard Elderton: Has your dentist ripped you off?
Bernard Rowe: Whiplash injuries and their problems
Ivor Doney: Don't meddle with our drink driving laws - One man's view

The Orangery at Goldeney Hall

Art, Surgery and Transplantation
Sir Roy Yorke Calne, General Surgeon, Cambridge

Chris Torrance: Forensic Fables
Robert Boyd: Tales out of school
Stefan Cembrowicz: Doctors in danger - violent patients
Elected president: Mr William Owen

Wine Tasting, Harveys Wine Museum
John Harvey

Jan 21st


Feb 27th



March 19th


May 7th



July 3rd

Oct 8th

Nov 19th




Dec 1st
1999
Ordinary Meeting



Annual Dinner
Ch Montrose 1985

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


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AGM

Body Alteration and the Law
Lois Bibbings, Co-founder, Centre for Law and Gender Studies, University of Bristol

The Grand Hall, Colstons Collegiate School
Speaker: Sir Neil Butterfield QC

How the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Works
Mr Michael Lewer QC, Chairman, CICA

The GMC: Setting Standards?
Sir Cyril Chantler, Council Member GMC,  Dean of UMDS of Guy's, Kings and St Thomas's

Clifton Hill House

Sports Psychology
Dr Steve Bull, Sports Psychologist to England and Wales Cricket Board

Mauritius; a Policing Experience
Mr David Shattock, personal adviser to the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Retired Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset
Subscription raised to £20

Jan 21st



Feb 26th


March 25th


May 6th



June 30th

Oct 21st


Dec 9th
2000
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Annual Dinner


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Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


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Facial Disfigurement, - Its Causes and Consequences
Mr James Partridge, founder and director, 'Changing Faces'

The Grand Hall, Colstons Collegiate School
Speaker: Sir David Ramsbottom GCB CBE, Chief Inspector of HM Prisons

The work of the Police Complaints Authority - a Medical Focus
Mrs Molly Meacher, Deputy Chairman, Police Complaints Authority

'A day in the life of...'
Jonathan Musgrave: Pre-clinical Dean, Faculty of Medicine
Primrose Salt: Dental Surgeon
Ian Glenn QC: Barrister

Prior Park, Bath

Rights or Wrongs? The Role of the Courts
Sir Robert Carswell, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

Harold Shipman - The Pathologist's View
Dr John Rutherford, Home Office Pathologist
Elected President: Dr Ronnie Barber
Jan 20th


Feb 25th


March 23rd


May 11th




7th July

Oct 19th


Nov 23rd

Home page

2001

Ordinary Meeting



Annual Dinner



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Members' Papers




Summer Social Gathering

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Special Meeting
Heads and Tales
Mr Richard Neave, Artist in Medicine and the Life Sciences, University of Manchester

The Grand Hall, Colstons Collegiate School
Speaker: Mike Brearley OBE, Psychotherapist and former England Cricket Captain

Who's Calling Please?
Dr Peter French, Forensic Phonetician

Ronald Hiles: Medical and Legal Aspects of Acid Attacks in Bangladesh
Paul Rumley: One Hundred Lawyers at the Bottom of the Ocean?...A Good Start
John Robson: Incident at the Long Tom Pass

Zoo

Current Controversies in the Radiological Diagnosis of Non-Accidental Injuries
Dr Stephen Chapman FRCP, FRCPCH, FRCR, Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Birmingham Childrens' Hospital

Death, Disaster and reconstruction: A Personal Perspective of Forensic Medicine
Prof Peter Vanezis, Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow

Soiree: Royal West of England Academy
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March 22nd


May 10th




June 22nd

Oct 11th



 Nov 22nd




Dec 6th

2002

Ordinary Meeting



Annual Dinner
Ch de Haux, 1er Cotes de Bordeaux

Ordinary Meeting



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Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting



Ordinary Meeting

AGM

Crime, Science and Crime Science
Dr Tamara Burrows PhD, Senior research Fellow, Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College, London

Redland High School
Speaker: Mr John Royce QC


Ancient Egyptian Mummies: A Resource for Scientific Studies
Professor Rosalie David, Director, Centre for Biomedical and Forensic studies, University of Manchester

Hugh Roberts: Why did we do that Malcolm? - The early years of the Bristol Medico-Legal Society
Harry Espiner: Through the Keyhole - Is It Still on the Map?



Easing the Passing
The Hon Mr Justice Hooper, President of the British Academy  of Forensic Scientists

The Pitfalls of Medical Evidence
Ms Mary Bennett, Barrister
Elected President: Mr Dick Elderton
Jan 24th



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March 21st



May 9th



June 21st

October 24th



Nov 28th
2003
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Annual Dinner



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AGM
The Internal Drug Smuggler
Mr Malcolm Clark, Detection Manager, HM Customs and Excise, Heathrow

Redland High School
Speaker: Sir Graeme Catto, President GMC,  Dean of Guy's, Kings and St Thomas's

Tales of a Peripatetic Pathologist
Dr Richard Shepherd, Head of Forensic Medicine, St Georges Hospital Medical School

Dudley Thomas: Current Confusion in Sentencing
Richard Brown: Desdemona's  Last Gasp, Some Medico-Legal Problems in Shakespeare
Andrew Gregg: The Real 007

Teeth Tell tales
Dr AW (Freddie) Martin, Forensic Odontologist

Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy - A Medico-Legal Emergency
Prof Peter Fleming, Professor of Child Health and Developmental Physiology, University of Bristol

Jan 23rd


Feb 28th



March 20th



May 15th




October 23rd


Nov 27th
2004
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Annual Dinner
Ch Timberlay, Bordeaux Superieur 1998

Ordinary Meeting


Members' Papers



Summer Social Gathering

Ordinary Meeting


Ordinary Meeting


AGM

Governing a modern Prison - Preparing For Release
Miss Veronica O'Dea, Governor HMP and YOI Ashfield

The Mansion House, Bristol
Speaker Dr Phil Hammond


Alzheimer' Disease, A Suitable Case For Treatment
Prof Gordon Wilcock, Professor in Care of the Elderly, University of Bristol

Tim Chambers: Salt Poisoning In Infancy and Childhood - Fact or Fiction?
Alice Roberts: Time Team - the Skeleton Evidence
David Dixon: Signing Your Life Away?

Gatcombe Court

Men from Out of Town: Experts on Trial
Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC

Forensic Animation - Does Graphic Evidence Aid Understanding?
Dr Damian Schofield PhD, Lecturer ScHEME, University of Nottingham, Director, AIMS Solutions, Nottingham
Elected President: Mr Andrew Hannam
Jan 22nd


Feb 27th



March 25th


May 13th



June 18th

October 21st


Nov 25th
2005
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Annual Dinner


Ordinary Meeting


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Summer Social Gathering

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AGM

Computer Derived Evidence
Professor Neil Bartlett: Technical Director, Information Risk Management plc, Visiting Professor, Computer Crime, Cranfield University.

The Mansion House, Bristol
Speaker: Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss DBE

"To Sleep, Perchance to Offend"
 Dr Jonathan Bird, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, The Burden Centre, Bristol

Frank Walters: "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness". Bringing Anaesthesia to Deprived Parts of the World
Bill Owen:  The Employment Tribunal: "Claimants always win, don't they?"

Gatcombe Court

"Success is a Funeral": Practicalities of the Identification Procedures in the Recent Tsunami Tragedy in Sri Lanka and Thailand
Dr John Robson: President, British Association for Forensic Odontology

"Rotten Eggs in the Omlette", Can We Identify Poorly Performing Doctors Without Embarking on an Expensive Witch-Hunt?
Prof Christopher Bulstrode, Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University of Oxford, Member of the GMC
Jan 20th



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May 12th



June 17th

Oct 27th



Nov 24th
Home page

2006

Ordinary Meeting

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Annual Dinner
Medoc: Ch. Carcanieux 1996

Ordinary Meeting


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AGM

Dr Michael Powers QC

The Complaints Culture, Child Protection and Paediatricians
 Dr Harvey Marcovitch: Consultant Paediatrician

Dudley Thomas: Adoption and the Children Act
Alan Montague: Doctors' Error and Manslaughter Prosecution
John Henderson: Medical Issues Affecting Children

Speaker: Denzil Lush, Master, Court of Protection



General Sir John Deverill KCB OBE FRSA FICPD
The Utility and Morality of War in the Present Day

Mr Gordon Bebb QC
Corporate Manslaughter
Elected President: Dr TL Chambers
Elected Medical Secretary: Dr Alan P Montague
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2007

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Mr Donald Sammut FRCS FRCS (Plas)
Leprosy in Anandwan, Central India:. Account of the Work of Baba Amte: Lawyer, Doctor, Visionary.

The Mansion House, Bristol
Speaker Mr Nigel Pascoe QC

Mr Robert Slack FRCS, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Member GMC
Whatever Is Going On At The General Medical Council?

Mark Cheesman: Elder abuse; a case  study
Colette Reid: Morphine after Shipman
Eugene Lloyd: Professional discipline of dental and medical students

Prof David Blake FRCP Professor of Bone and Joint Medicine, Univ. of Bath
Mad, Sad, Bad, Sick or Thick? An analysis of chronic pain states.

Andrew Hopper QC
Defending Solicitors: "The Star Chamber"
Elected Legal Secretary: Miss Hannah Volpé
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Nov 29th

.2008
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Dr Michael Milne, Consultant, Frenchay Hospital
Triage for Intensive Care: (Un) Just, (Un) Necessary and (Un) Kind

The Mansion House, Bristol
Speaker: Dr Paul Knapman FRCP FRCS DMJ. HM Coroner for Inner West London sitting at Westminster

MrBryan Harvey BDS FGDP(UK) Deputy Head of the Dental Defence Union:
The Ethics of Dentistry: The Other Side of the Fence

Erwin Brown: "Understanding Mrs A": Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus and other superbugs
Timothy Chambers: "Stuffing their mouths with gold(s)" The Clinical Excellence Awards Scheme for NHS Consultants.
Julie Chappell: The Impact of the Obesity Epidemic on the NHS

Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green  HM Commissioner for Children
11 Million Reasons for a Childrens’ Commissioner

Mr Bertie Leigh, Senior Partner, Hempsons
"The Doctor and Society - why is it a dysfunctional relationship and how far is the Law to blame?"

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October 23rd


November 27th

2009
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The Rt Hon Lord Owen CH FRCP
"In Sickness And In Power": Illness in heads of government.

The Mansion House, Bristol
Speaker:: Dr George Papworth

Dr John Croft
Polonium 210 and the Litvinyenko Incident

Christopher Sharp QC: "The similarities between the trials of Saddam Hussein and King Charles 1"
John Kilmister: "Everything you ever wanted to know about asbestos but were afraid to ask"
Elected:
   President: Ms Kay McCluskey

Dr Guy Norfolk: Forensic Services for Rape Victims

Mr Christopher Rollings:  Work of the Expert Witness in General Aviation Accidents
January 22nd



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October 22nd

November 26th
2010
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Dr Russell Delaney FRCPath. "Military Fatalities and the Role of the  Forensic Pathologist in Modern Military Medicine"

The Mansion House, Bristol
Speaker: Dr Ed Coates

Professor Raymond Tallis: "Medical Ethics in the Real Mess of the Real World"

Dr Adam Brown, Emergency Physician "Helicopter Emergency Medical Services: High Risk and High Exposure"
Dr Jules Brown, Intensive Care Physician: Diving Medicine

Professor Gareth Williams, former Dean of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bristol: "Edward Jenner and the discovery of vaccination: a medical and moral tale"

Sir Peter Simpson FRCA, Chairman UK Donation Ethics Committee: "Organ Donation  and Transplantation: Removing the Obstacles"
January 21st


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May 13th



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November 25th
2011
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Mr Richard Edwards FRCS, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon.
Identifying Non-Accidental Head Injury In A Child

The Mansion House, Bristol
Speaker: The Lord Hunt of Wirral

Dr Clare Kendall, Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine:
The End of Life: Making the Decisions

"A Run on the Bank": The Southmead Litigation. Miss Karen Sanders LLM
"Pleural Plaques: Asbestos Pathology": Dr Nick Maskell, Chest Physician
 Elected:
        President Dr Louise Foster

Mr Nigel Mercer FRCS, Consultant Plastic Surgeon
"The Desire for Perfection in a Flawed World": Regulation of  Injectable Cosmetic Treatments

Professor David Maguire PhD FRGS  Former Chief Scientist, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.:
"Why there is no such thing as a postcode lottert": Geographical Information Systems and the New Medico-Legal Geography
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