LEGAL & MEDICAL CONFERENCE 2009
A health check for the medico-legal industry
Programme
Thursday, 2 April 2009One Wimpole Street
PROGRAMME |
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| 8:30am | Continental breakfast and registration
Exhibits open |
| 9:20am | Chairman’s Welcome
Robin de Wilde QC |
| 9.35am | Keynote Session - Claims Reforms - Bringing change and innovation Amanda Stevens (APIL President), Nicholas Bevan (Bond Pearce LLP) |
| 10:15am | MoJ Claims Reforms Panel Session Amanda Stevens (APIL President), Shadow Justice Secretary Henry Bellingham MP, Graham Gibson (Allianz Insurance Plc), Andrew Underwood (Keoghs) |
| 10:45am | Refreshment and exhibition |
| 11:15am | Personal injury law and related issues/ the opposition view |
| 11:45am | Looking to the future - The insurance lawyer’s perspective
Andrew Underwood (Keoghs), Colin Ettinger (Irwin Mitchell) |
| 12:15pm | The current state of the US Market
Mike Doyle (Doyle Raizner LLP) |
| 12:45pm | UK Rehab Industry Standards Morag Heighway (UK Rehabilitation Council) |
| 1:15pm | Lunch |
| 2.05pm | Damages for care in serious personal injury Richard Coleman (Withy King) |
| 2.35pm | Damages for care in serious personal injury Panel Session Christian Du Cann (39 Essex Street), Andrew Underwood (Keoghs), Duncan Rutter (Beachcroft LLP), Warren Collins (Davies Arnold Cooper) William Latimer-Sayer (Cloisters) |
| 3.05pm | Refreshment and exhibition |
| 3.30pm | Costs
Paul Shenton (Just Costs) |
| 4.00pm | Pleural Plaques Compensation Nicholas Bevan (Bond Pearce LLP) |
| 4.30pm | Pleural Plaques Compensation Panel Session Nicholas Bevan (Bond Pearce LLP), Jeremy Freedman (Park Lane Plowden). |
| 5:00pm | Avoiding Medico-Legal Expert Witness Disasters after Williams v Jervis Jonathan Dingle (218 Strand) |
| 5.30pm | Conference End |
* Programme subject to change
