For those looking to keep on top of their CPD over the summer, in Episode 204 Emma-Louise Fenelon interviews John Whitting KC and Robert Mills about recent developments in clinical negligence.
Robert Mills takes listeners through three recent cases on material contribution:

• CNZ v Royal Bath Hospitals NHSFT & The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] EWHC 19 (KB)
• CDE v Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust [2023] EWCA Civ 1330
• Holmes v Poeton Holdings Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 1377

John Whitting KC outlines developments in the law of informed consent

• Bilal and Malik v St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWCA Civ 605
• McCulloch and others v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] UKSC 26

And the episode concludes on a discussion of expert evidence

• Woods v Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 1432 (KB)
• CE (Cameroon) [2023] UKAITUR PA011122020

The podcast has previously covered expert evidence in the following episodes:

• Disaster Avoidance for Experts with Margaret Bowron KC here
• Disaster Avoidance for Experts with Neil Sheldon KC here

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A tale of small win against airline leads to big Supreme Court ruling on pre- and post- Brexit compensation. Rosalind English in conversation with David Hart KC.

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LawPod UK is marking International Women’s Day with a three-part series exploring gender at the Bar.
In this series, Lucy McCann and Rajkiran Barhey speak to Lady Justice Whipple, Sally Smith KC, Clodagh Bradley KC, Cara Guthrie, Judith Rogerson, Isabel McArdle, Emma-Louise Fenelon and Chloe Turvill about their experiences, in the hope of drawing out some key reflections and continuing the conversation about gender and the profession.
In this episode, Lucy and Kiran ask ‘what’s the problem?’ and cover a number of issues including gendered assumptions and stereotypes, pressure at the Bar, equal pay, and the fair allocation of work.

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In Episode 104, an esteemed panel of speakers discuss the complexities of EU law during the Brexit transition period and beyond, as part of an event hosted by the Constitutional and Administrative Bar Association. The panel features Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union law at Cambridge and Alison Pickup, Legal Director at the Public Law Project.

New UK law on oppressive behaviour in a relationship has been used successfully to persuade a recalcitrant Jewish husband to grant his wife a divorce recognisable in the religious courts: Rosalind English discusses this landmark case with Anthony Metzer QC"

In Episode 102 Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Shaheen Rahman QC about Samira Ahmed’s decisive Employment Tribunal victory against the BBC

Medical negligence experts James Badenoch QC (now retired) and David Hart QC of 1 Crown Office Row discuss some of the solutions proposed to the vast expense to the NHS of damages claims in negligence and whether  any of these propositions - such as a tariff system run by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board - is feasible.

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Neil Sheldon QC about how to help your expert stay out of trouble in clinical negligence cases

Middle Temple’s exhibition celebrates the centenary of the admission of women to the legal profession. It consists of 25 portraits of women Middle Templars over the last 100 years, including Helen Normanton, the first woman to become a member of an Inn. It is accompanied by a digital exhibition of many more of our distinguished women members. The exhibition curated by Rosalind Wright CB QC, a Bencher of Middle Temple with specially commissioned photography by Chris Christodoulou. The portraits are exhibited in order of Call to the Bar.   We were lucky enough to be guided around this fantastic exhibition by the curator, Rosalind Wright CB QC.  Listen to Rosalind discuss the first 100 years of women in law with Rosalind English in the latest episode of Law Pod UK.   Visit the exhibition, and listen along, to see the women past, present and future who have changed the legal landscape at Middle Temple here.   When: 2 September 2019 to 31 January 2020 Where: Middle Temple   Amendment: Baroness Helena Kennedy’s article and further literature surrounding Bertha Cave’s application and acceptance to Gray’s Inn as ‘B Cave’ has now been shown to be fictitious. However, Bertha Cave was a very early pioneer of women’s rights and, unfortunately unsuccessfully, took the benchers to the House of Lords to argue her case for inclusion.”

There should be a distinction between AI and algorithms being tools for lawyers as opposed to lawyers and laws being the tools for the use of AI. The huge emancipatory opportunities offered by technology could be lost if we don’t get on top of it and allow it to overtake us, as we subject ourselves to all its processes. Rosalind English talks to Emily Foges, CEO of Luminance, an Artificial Intelligence programme for the legal profession, about the practical applications of algorithms to the law. How can we avail ourselves of the codes before the codes manage us?

Rosalind English talks to Kate O’Regan, who was appointed to the South African Constitutional Court at the dawn of the full franchise in 1994. Kate was one of the youngest appointees to a court with a profoundly important task, to apply the newly drafted Bill of Rights to a deeply divided society.

Even with the demise of apartheid, conflicts persist: between African customary law and law imported from the country’s colonial masters, Britain and Holland; the cultural differences in the perception of the rights of women, and the uphill task of the courts to ensure the safety of citizens of the new South Africa from random violence on public transport.

The most senior family judge in England and Wales has ruled that a transgender man who gave birth with the help of fertility cannot be registered as his child's father. 

This is first case of its kind, and Rosalind English discusses the decision with Charlotte Gilmartin, who points out that the ruling endorses a tension between legal parentage and social/psychological parentage in transgender cases.

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Jo Moore and Jon Metzer from 1 Crown Office Row about the UK Supreme Court decision in R (Miller) v The Prime Minister and Cherry & Ors v Advocate General for Scotland.  

The Supreme Court has ruled out claims for physicatric harm suffered by family members witnessing death or serious injury as a result of medical negligence. Rosalind English talks to Judith Rogerson of 1 Crown Office Row about the implication of this ruling.

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In this episode Catherine Barnard discusses the Supreme Court Judgment on the "unlawful" prorogation of Parliament. 

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Isabel McArdle about some of the ways in which taxation and human rights overlap. 

In this episode Catherine Barnard, looks at Boris Johnson’s government’s prospects of securing a new deal with the EU.

Can they pull off a new deal with the EU or will his “do or die” mantra lead to a no-deal Brexit at the end of October 2019?

As a bonus summer episode we bring you the questions and answers from 
the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association annual summer law conference in response to Jonathan Sumption’s Reith Lectures. 

The panel features: Lord Dyson, Sir Stephen Laws, Lord Falconer, Professor Meg Russell, Professor Vernon Bogdanor and is Chaired by Mrs Justine Thornton.

To celebrate reaching 200,000 listens we have a selection of our popular 2019 episodes. A summer summary for listeners before we return in the autumn.

In Episode 89, Lord Sumption responds to a panel hosted by the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association, in conversation with Lord Justice Singh.

In Episode 88, an esteemed panel of speakers respond to former UK Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption’s Reith Lectures, as part of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association annual summer law conference. The panel features: Lord Dyson, Sir Stephen Laws, Lord Falconer, Professor Meg Russell, Professor Vernon Bogdanor and is Chaired by Mrs Justine Thornton.

Rosalind English talks to Catriona Murdoch about a new app designed to help professionals in the investigation of international crimes. The BIS app ensures that relevant information is collected in ways that it will be reliable evidence in court.

Here Professor Barnard examines whether either candidate could sign up to a tariff free no-deal, the so called GATT 24 option, and what the timings for Brexit look like both here and in the EU. 

Rosalind English talks to Alasdair Henderson about the Welsh government U-turn on the M4 relief road. Alasdair acted for some of the objectors in the inquiry and regards it as "probably one of the biggest environmental success stores in terms of challenging a major infrastructure project on environmental grounds.

Rachel Marcus and Marcus Coates-Walker of 1 Crown Office Row join Lucy McCann to explore the principle of the scope of duty in the context of clinical negligence claims. First by analysing the decision in Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21 and then discussing how the courts have grappled with scope of duty issues since.
Cases discussed in this episode include:
-          Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21
-          McFarlane v Tayside Board of Health [2000] 2 AC 59
-          Groom v Selby [2001] EWCA Civ 1522
-          Parkinson v St James & Seacroft UH NHS Trust [2001] EWCA Civ 530
-          SD v Grampian Health Board [2022] CSOH 63
-          DD v NHS Fife Health Board [2022] SAC (Civ) 27
-          Radia v Marks [2022] EWHC 145 (QB)
-          McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] UKSC 26
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In this episode, Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Jo Moore from 1COR and Laura Bruce from the Sutton Trust about widening participation at the Bar. 

In this episode we are bringing the second of two highlights from the recent one crown office row’s seminar – Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar revisited. Dominic Ruck Keene dicusses the effects of the case.

In this episode we are bringing the first of two highlights from the recent 1COR seminar – Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar revisited. We hear from Jonathan Metzer as he gives his interpretation of the case.

What lessons are to be drawn from the results of the European elections? In the latest edition of her Brexit podcast, 2903 CB, Catherine Barnard discusses the implications for the Conservative leadership contest, the withdrawal agreement and a no deal exit if that is to happen.

Professor Christine Bell, Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC, Professor Ronan McCrea and Lord Kerr recently spoke at an HRLA event on the legal and human rights implications of Brexit on Northern Ireland.

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Christopher Mellor about causation in inquests and the findings in R(Chidlow) v HMS Coroner for Blackpool and Fylde [2019] EWHC 581 (Admin)

#1COR #LawpodUK #InquestLaw #ChristopherMellor  #EmmaLouiseFenelon #Chidlow

Rosalind English discusses the new copyright proposals with music lawyer Andrew Lewis

#1COR #LawpodUK #RosalindEnglish #AndrewLewis #copyright #youtube

In this episode Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Rajkiran Barhey about two recent High Court decisions on anonymity.​

#1COR #LawpodUK #EmmaLouiseFenelon #RajkiranBarhey #Anonymity

Rosalind English talks to Cherry James about the Erasmus student programme, the European Commission’s ambitious project for building EU citizenship in higher education.

#1COR #LawpodUK #RosalindEnglish #CherryJames #Erasmus  #EUCitizenship

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Marina Wheeler QC about the recent Court of Appeal decision in Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department and the operation of the Prevent Guidance generally.

#1COR #LawpodUK #EmmaLouiseFenelon #MarinaWheeler #CourtofAppeal #PreventGuidance

Lucy McCann, Rosalind English and Jon Metzer discuss a selection of significant legal cases from the UK over the past year.

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Professor Catherine Barnard, discusses the latest Brexit developments and looks at the options now with just four days to go before the UK was originally set to leave the EU.

#CatherineBarnard #EUWithdrawalBill #GrandCoalition #Brexit #WithdrawalAgreement

Cape Town employment Judge Anton Steenkamp talks about the challenges of upholding the rule of law in a country where people are plenty and employment is scarce. The tragic death of Judge Steenkamp shortly after this episodes was recorded is a great shock to friends and colleagues and an irreparable loss to the South African justice system.

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #AntonSteenkamp

Frances Gibb has retired after nearly forty years as legal journalist and editor, covering everything from Lord Irvine’s pricey wallpaper to the release of the Guildford Four. She talks to Rosalind English about the challenges of reporting on a profession highly sensitive to slips and slights.

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish  #FrancesGibb  #LegalJournalism

Rosalind English interviews Jacob Turner, barrister and author of a thoroughgoing analysis of the law and its capacity for operating in a world where computers are taking over all the transactions. Is Artificial Intelligence an entirely new legal phenomenon?

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #JacobTurner #ArtificialIntelligence #AIRegulation #MachineLearning

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Robert Kellar about consent and causation, discussing the development of the law since Chester v Afshar through to Khan v MNX.

#1COR #LapodUK #EmmaLouiseFenelon #RobertKellar #Consent #Causation

In the final highlight from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Christopher Mellor discusses the general medical council and when undertakings should be sufficient.  

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #ChristopherMellor #GMC #Undertakings #GeneralMedicalCouncil

Professor Catherine Barnard, discusses the latest Brexit developments as the Prime Minister Theresa May MP and her government were subject to another defeat in Parliament this week.

#CatherineBarnard #EUWithdrawalBill #GrandCoalition #Brexit #WithdrawalAgreement

Taken from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Mathew Barnes asks the question in his talk about remediation - Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #MathewBarnes  #Remediation

Taken from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Owain Thomas QC gives a talk entitled - Upholding public confidence argument: is it undermining remediation?

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #OwainThomas #PublicConfidence #Remediation

Taken from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Robert Kellar and Jeremy Hyam QC discuss appeals by the general medical council. 

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #RobertKeller #JeremyHyam #GMC #GeneralMedicalCouncil #Appeals #Remediation

Join chemist Professor Roy Harrison and environmental law silk David Hart, for a review of recent personal injury lawsuits where claimants seek damages for exposure to toxic substances. Despite the technical challenges, this litigation is key to environmental protection.

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Rosalind English talks to John Whitting QC of 1 Crown Office Row about Montgomery, informed consent and his response to our earlier episode “Doctor Knows Best"

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #JohnWhitting #Montgomery #InformedConsent

Do terminally ill patients have the right to die at the time and place of their choosing, with the attendance of a medical practitioner? The ban on assisted suicide has raised one of the great moral questions of our time. The Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying, Sarah Wootton discusses their campaign to change the law with Rosalind English.

#1COR #LapodUK #RightToDie #Assisted Suicide #DignityInDying #SarahWooton #RosalindEnglish

Last year the High Court ruled out claims against the British Government brought by people caught up in the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya in the 1950s. The allegations of brutality against guards employed by the Colonial Office were time-barred by the half-century that has elapsed since the events took place. Guy Mansfield QC represented the Foreign Office in this litigation and discusses the importance of the Limitation Act with Rosalind English.

#1COR #LapodUK #MauMauUprising #ForeignOffice #GuyMansfield #RosalindEnglish #Litergation #LimitationAct