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Minutes of MLACP 14th Annual General Meeting held at the CSP 14, Bedford Row on Friday 25th November 2011 Present: Sue Edwards (Hon. Chair), Judith Bentley (Hon. Secretary) Brian Simpson (Hon Treasurer), Susan Filson, Pauline Pope, Kate Sheehy, Kevin Reese, Zena Schofield, Patricia Bartley, Jenny Archer, Katarzyna Czubak, Sarah Daniel, Alison Phillips, Nicky Edwards, Sara [...]

Chairman’s Report November 2011

VAT For Small Businesses VAT is applicable to most businesses in the UK. If you believe you need to register for VAT you will charge your customers VAT and be able to redeem the VAT you are charged by others. You should register if: ‘your turnover for the previous 12 months has gone over a [...]

Data Protection for Healthcare Professionals General Principles If you handle or store data in respect of patients there are certain legal and professional obligations you must consider and apply in respect of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Act. Generally they fall within 8 established principles, which for a fuller understanding you may wish [...]

  Constitution – Draft amendment June (2) 2011

Summer 2011 Expert Update Welcome to Anthony Gold In this issue we look at a new method for experts to give evidence at trial, conflicts of interest, and recent Court of Appeal decisions on the role of the expert witness and “expert shopping”. Are you ready for the Hot Tub? Jon Nicholson – Head of [...]

The New Law Journal/2011 Volume 161/Issue 7466, May/Articles/Call yourself an expert? – 161 NLJ 707 New Law Journal 161 NLJ 707 20 May 2011 Call yourself an expert? Profession Expert Witness Professor Penny Cooper The City Law School, City University London and governor of the Expert Witness Institute © Reed Elsevier (UK) Ltd 2011   [...]

The New Law Journal/2011 Volume 161/Issue 7460, April/Articles/Action–Expert witnesses–Immunity from suit – 161 NLJ 508 New Law Journal 161 NLJ 508 8 April 2011 Action–Expert witnesses–Immunity from suit Inside Court Law Reports Jan Miller 020 7400 2582 Jan.miller@lexisnexis.co.uk © Reed Elsevier (UK) Ltd 2011   Jones v Kaney [2011] UKSC 13, [2011] All ER (D) [...]

CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 19th November 2010 Welcome to you all at this 13th Annual General Meeting of the Medico-Legal Association. I would like to first of all introduce you to the committee members who have worked tirelessly on your behalf in the past year. • Judith Bentley, our long serving and extremely well organised secretary • [...]

I would like to welcome you all to this 11th Annual General Meeting and Study day. When three physiotherapists met for an informal meeting in 1995 to discuss how they could support each other and colleagues undertaking medico legal work, they did not realise that this would lead to a new clinical interest group being [...]

I usually recover 99% of all debts from solicitors within 2 to 3 weeks usually with interest for which I only charge a small percentage of the amount recovered. If the firm ignores my demand for payment I always recommend the institution of court proceedings as this invariably produces payment almost by return. I have [...]

Reproduced with kind permission of Dr Chris Pamplin and The UK Register of Expert Witnesses. A leapfrog certificate has brought the future for expert witness immunity into the spotlight once more In recent years there has been a succession of cases in which an expert’s immunity from claims for damages has come under the spotlight. [...]

What would be a ‘good’ outcome at the Supreme Court? Reproduced with kind permission of Dr Chris Pamplin and The UK Register of Expert Witnesses In the first part we looked at the recent background to expert witness immunity and the case of Jones -v- Kaney. Whilst expert witnesses have protection from civil actions for [...]

Linda Griffiths CSP Information Office / Librarian There is no simple formula for how to do a literature search – every search is different because every question is different. What I propose to do here is to offer an outline of how to do a literature search bearing the above in mind. Literature searching is [...]

Expertise is correctly, but one-sidedly, associated with special abilities and enhanced performance. The other side of expertise, however, is surreptitiously hidden. Along with expertise, performance may also be degraded, culminating in a lack of flexibility and error. Download the PDF