Our team of leading barristers and top experts in their field will be looking at issues arising in cases involving life-ending and life-shortening accidents. You will get the chance to hear from Ken Darzy, consultant in general internal medicine, diabetes & endocrinology on life expectancy estimation. You will also hear first-hand from leading experts Maggie Sargent (care and case management) and Susan Filson (physiotherapy), fresh from their key roles in last year’s most important brain injury case, C v Sheffield. Assistant Coroner for South Wales, Mr David Regan, will provide us with insight into the coronial process by way of a Q&A hosted by our barristers. At the end of the day, delegates will take part in a live legal debate and witness a mock interim payment application.

Who should attend?

This event is aimed primarily at experienced claimant and defendant fee-earners, but there will be something for everyone working in this challenging and ever-changing field.

Topics include:

• Life expectancy estimation – methodology and pitfalls
  Ken Darzy MBChB, FRCP, MD, Consultant in General Internal Medicine, Diabetes & Endocrinology
• Dealing with reduced life expectancy
  Matthew White, Head of Chambers & Rachel Segal, Barristers
• Serious injury claims: Vulnerability and costs
  Nick McDonnell, Director and Costs Lawyer, Kain Knight
• The role of the care and case management expert 2024
  Maggie Sargent, Maggie Sargent & Associates
• The importance of maintaining, enhancing and enriching the lives of those catastrophically injured through physical therapy
  Susan Filson, Physiotherapy Consultant, SJ Filson & Associates
• Coroner’s question time
  Louise Asprey & Lauren Karmel, Barristers, David Regan, Coroner in South Wales
  
• How to formulate schedules in wrongful death claims, and how to defend them
  Justin Valentine, Beatrice Baskett, Julian Horne & Sophie Howard, Barristers
• Mock interim payment application
  Andrew McLaughlin and James Hughes will argue the case before Civil Recorder Rachel Russell.

Please join us for a drinks reception afterwards – kindly sponsored by Head First.

Raffle:

The proceeds of this year’s conference charity raffle will go to Headway Bristol, helping survivors of brain injury live as independently as possible.

Exhibitors:

Come along and meet our exhibitors on the day: Head First, Medical & Legal Admin Services (MLAS), ProActive Prosthetics, Circle Case Management, Premex Group, ARAG,  Maggie Sargent & Associates and CHROMA

Cost:

Early bird offer £130 + VAT until 1st August.