Seminars and Events

Serjeants’ Inn Chambers offers a rolling programme of seminars. The most recent topics our barristers have delivered are listed below.

 

Please let us know if we can assist you with training or other initiatives.

 

Clinical Negligence

  • Abuse Claims and the Medical Profession
  • Accommodation Claims (is Roberts v Johnstone under attack?)
  • Assessing Quantum: Special Damages, Past and Future Loss
  • Cosmetic Surgery: Inducements, Informed Consent and Objective Guidance
  • Duty of Candour: the ramifications
  • FGM: Lessons from R v Dharmasena
  • Inquests, experts & legal update
  • Lessons re LRMPA and FAA Claims from Kadir v Mistry and Brown v Hamid
  • Material Contribution
  • Mediation in Clinical Negligence Cases
  • Pre-action Disclosure and the Duty of Candour
  • Preparing Quantum for Trial
  • Psychiatric Injury: Primary and Secondary Victims
  • Quantum in Neurosurgery & Neurological Disease
  • Running a Consent Case after Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
  • The Hardnosed Litigator’s Approach to Settlement Strategy in General and Part 36 in Particular
  • Using Experts in Medical Negligence Cases
  • Wrongful Birth Claims

(We can also provide legal updates on recent clinical negligence case law).
Police Law

  • Enduring Protest (Public Order)
  • Legal Framework on Police Integrity
  • Managing Litigation: Chief Police Officers
  • Police Misconduct/Discipline Panels
  • Public Hearings and Other Matters
  • Unsatisfactory Performance Procedures

 

Court of Protection

  • Adult Safeguarding, an impending storm
  • CoP – Getting the Practice & Procedure Right
  • Deprivation of Liberty: post-Cheshire
  • Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
  • ECHR
  • Medical Treatment Cases in the Court of Protection
  • Medical Treatment Decisions
  • Urgent Medical Treatment and End of Life Issues

 

Fraud/money-laundering

  • Internal investigations

 

Inquests

  • The Coroners and Justice Act: two years on
  • Inquest advocacy
  • Learning from Inquests, Preventions of Future Death Reports (PFD)

 

Costs

  • Recovering from Mitchell

 

Employment

  • Disability Discrimination (reasonable adjustments and indirect discrimination)
  • Employment contract law

 

Healthcare Systems and Safety Regulation

  • The Care Quality Commission: an overview