A skeleton chronology of meetings:
| 2017 | ||
| AGM | Professor Richard Huxtable – Assisted Dying, the Law and the Ethics | 11 May 2017 |
| Annual Dinner | Annual dinner – Charlotte Leslie, MP | 10 March 2017 |
| Ordinary meeting | Heather Thompson, Medical Detection Dogs | 26 January 2017 |
| 2016 | ||
| Ordinary meeting | Professor David Nutt (Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London) ‘Legal Highs’ | 21 January 2016 |
| Annual Dinner | Mr Nazir Afzal (Ex Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS in the Northwest) | 4 March 2016 |
| Debate | Debating the issue of the NHS and corporate manslaughter with pupils from St Johns, Guildhall and Albion Chambers | 14 April 2016 |
| AGM | Dr Ben Gupta – “Working with Medecins Sans Frontieres” | 12 May 2016 |
| Ordinary meeting | Baroness Susan Greenfield‘How digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains’ | 20 October 2016 |
| Ordinary meeting | Alan Hunter, Director of Claims at the NHS LA ‘From Litigation to Prevention’ | 24 November 2016 |
| 2015 | ||
| Ordinary meeting | Dr John Carlisle – Fraud in Clinical Research | 22 January 2015 |
| Annual Dinner | Dr Richard Hardie | 6 March 2015 |
| Debate | Debating the issue of assisted dying, with a team from Bristol University | 16 April 2015 |
| AGM | Alan Collins – The Jimmy Saville sexual abuse allegations Elected President: Dr Judith Jones Elected Vice President: Wendy Brown | 21 May 2015 |
| Ordinary meeting | Professor Lois Bibbings – ‘Binding men: stories about violence and law in late Victorian England’ | 22 October 2015 |
| Ordinary meeting | Dr Bob Spencer, Consultant in Public Health and Infectious Diseases – Ebola: A rumble in the jungle. | 26 November 2015 |
| 2014 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Chris Jarvis, Medical Advisor to Team GB Cycling “Doping in cycling: Past problems and future solutions” | 23 January 2014 |
| Annual Dinner | Dr Jim Down, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at University College London Hospital – Polonium 210 and the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko | 7 March 2014 |
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Stuart Hamilton, Home Office Forensic Pathologist “Old bones and new eyes: the role of exhumation in 21st century forensic investigation” | 10 April 2014 |
| AGM | Professor Jeremy Tavaré, Director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research | 15 May 2014 |
| Ordinary Meeting | Susie Orbach, Psychotherapist – Why men murder children | 16 October 2014 |
| Ordinary Meeting | Camilla Brown – Unchosen | 20 November 2014 |
2013 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Andrew Longstaff, Consultant Radiologist, Frenchay Hospital | January 24th 2013 |
| Radiation Can Be Good For You: How Imaging Has Revolutionised Surgical Practice | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol | March 1st 2013 |
| Guest of Honour: Paul Bowen QC | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Chris Goulden, Children’s Solicitor | April 11th 2013 |
| Keeping Children (and their doctor) Safe: Controversies in Child Protection Law and its Implementation | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Mr Tim Grice. | |
| Elected Vice-President: Dr Judith Jones | ||
| Elected Medical Secretary: Dr Sarah Martindale | ||
| Members Papers: | ||
| Dr Martin Plummeridge: “Working is bad for your health!” | ||
| Mr Alan Montague: “Dead Heat” – a marathon doc’s experience | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Christopher Jefferies, retired schoolmaster and Leveson Inquiry contributor: “Ethics and the Media” | October 17th 2013 |
| Ordinary Meeting | Miss Helen Mulvein, Legal Advisor to HM Foreign and Commonwealth Office: | November 21st 2013 |
| From Treaties to Trailers: the Role of the Foreign Office Legal Advisor | ||
2012 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Fergus MacBeth, Director of the Centre for Clinical Practice, National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Nasty or N.I.C.E. ? | January 24th 2012 |
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol Guest of Honour: Professor Mike Grocott | March 2nd 2012 |
| Ordinary Meeting | Miss Lois Bibbings, Senior Law Lecturer, University of Bristol Do or Die? Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice | March 27th 2012 |
| AGM | Adoption of move to The Engineer’ House, Clifton. | May 15th 2012 |
| Members’ Papers | 1. The President, Dr Louise Foster: “Dentistry on the ocean waves: the QE2 and working aboard her” 2. The Medical Secretary, Alan Montague: “Chemical Weapons: The Moral Argument” | |
| Ordinary Meeting | NEW VENUE: The Engineers’ House, Clifton Dr Jules Blackham, Consultant Emergency Physician, Pre-Hospital Physician The Helicopter Emergency Medical Service: Focussed Excellence, Expensive Fun or Both? | October 18th 2012 |
| Ordinary Meeting | Professor Richard Williams OBE, TD, FRCPsych Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist War and Civilian Catastrophe: Preventing, Mitigating and Treating the Horrors | November 27th 2012 |
2011 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Richard Edwards FRCS, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon. Identifying Non-Accidental Head Injury In A Child | January 25th 2011 |
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol Speaker: The Lord Hunt of Wirral | February 25th 2011 |
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Clare Kendall, Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine: The End of Life: Making the Decisions | March 17th 2011 |
| Short Papers | A Run on the Bank: The Southmead Litigation. Miss Karen Sanders LLM | May 19th 2011 |
| Pleural Plaques: Asbestos Pathology: Dr Nick Maskell, Chest Physician | ||
| AGM | Elected: President: | |
| Dr Louise Foster BDS(Manc), PhD(Bristol), FRACDS | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Nigel Mercer FRCS, Consultant Plastic Surgeon | October 20th 2011 |
| The Desire for Perfection in a Flawed World: Regulation of Injectable Cosmetic Treatments | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Professor David Maguire PhD FRGS Former Chief Scientist, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.: | November 24th 2011 |
| Why there is no such thing as a postcode lottery: Geographical Information Systems and the New Medico-Legal Geography | ||
2010 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Russell Delaney FRCPath. “Military Fatalities and the Role of the Forensic Pathologist in Modern Military Medicine” | January 21st |
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol | February 26th |
| Speaker: Dr Ed Coates | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Professor Raymond Tallis: “Medical Ethics in the Real Mess of the Real World” | March 25th |
| Short Papers | Dr Adam Brown, Emergency Physician “Helicopter Emergency Medical Services: High Risk and High Exposure” | May 13th |
| AGM | Dr Jules Brown, Intensive Care Physician: Diving Medicine | |
| Ordinary Meeting | Professor Gareth Williams, former Dean of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bristol: “Edward Jenner and the discovery of vaccination: a medical and moral tale” | October 14th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Sir Peter Simpson FRCA, Chairman UK Donation Ethics Committee: “Organ Donation and Transplantation: Removing the Obstacles” | November 25th |
2009 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Rt Hon Lord Owen CH FRCP | January 22nd |
| In Sickness And In Power: Illness in heads of government. | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol | February 27th |
| Speaker:: Dr George Papworth | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr John Croft | March 31st |
| Polonium 210 and the Litvinyenko Incident | ||
| Short Papers | Christopher Sharp QC: “The similarities between the trials of Saddam Hussein and King Charles 1” | May 14th |
| John Kilmister: “Everything you ever wanted to know about asbestos but were afraid to ask” | ||
| AGM | Elected: | |
| President: Ms Kay McCluskey | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Guy Norfolk: Forensic Services for Rape Victims | October 22nd |
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Christopher Rollings: Work of the Expert Witness in General Aviation Accidents | November 26th |
2008 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Michael Milne, Consultant, Frenchay Hospital | Jan 24th |
| Triage for Intensive Care: (Un) Just, (Un) Necessary and (Un) Kind | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol | Feb 22nd |
| Speaker: Dr Paul Knapman FRCP FRCS DMJ. HM Coroner for Inner West London sitting at Westminster | ||
| MrBryan Harvey BDS FGDP(UK) Deputy Head of the Dental Defence Union: | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Ethics of Dentistry: The Other Side of the Fence | April 3rd |
| Members’ Papers | Erwin Brown: “Understanding Mrs A”: Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus and other superbugs | May 8th |
| Timothy Chambers: “Stuffing their mouths with gold(s)” The Clinical Excellence Awards Scheme for NHS Consultants. | ||
| Julie Chappell: The Impact of the Obesity Epidemic on the NHS | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green HM Commissioner for Children | October 23rd |
| 11 Million Reasons for a Childrens’ Commissioner | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Bertie Leigh, Senior Partner, Hempsons | November 27th |
| The Doctor and Society – why is it a dysfunctional relationship and how far is the Law to blame? | ||
2007 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Donald Sammut FRCS FRCS (Plas) | Jan 25th |
| Leprosy in Anandwan, Central India:. Account of the Work of Baba Amte: Lawyer, Doctor, Visionary. | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol | Feb 22nd |
| Speaker Mr Nigel Pascoe QC | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Robert Slack FRCS, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Member GMC | March 29th |
| Whatever Is Going On At The General Medical Council? | ||
| Members’ Papers | Mark Cheesman: Elder abuse; a case study | May 10th |
| Colette Reid: Morphine after Shipman | ||
| Eugene Lloyd: Professional discipline of dental and medical students | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Prof David Blake FRCP Professor of Bone and Joint Medicine, Univ. of Bath | Oct 25th |
| Mad, Sad, Bad, Sick or Thick? An analysis of chronic pain states. | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Andrew Hopper QC | Nov 29th |
| Defending Solicitors: “The Star Chamber” | ||
| AGM | Elected Legal Secretary: Miss Hannah Volpé | |
2006 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Michael Powers QC | Jan 26th |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Complaints Culture, Child Protection and Paediatricians | March 30th |
| Dr Harvey Marcovitch: Consultant Paediatrician | ||
| Members’ Papers | Dudley Thomas: Adoption and the Children Act | May 11th |
| Alan Montague: Doctors’ Error and Manslaughter Prosecution | ||
| John Henderson: Medical Issues Affecting Children | ||
| Annual Dinner | Speaker: Denzil Lush, Master, Court of Protection | Feb 24th |
| Medoc: Ch. Carcanieux 1996 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | General Sir John Deverill KCB OBE FRSA FICPD | Oct 26th |
| The Utility and Morality of War in the Present Day | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Gordon Bebb QC | Nov 30th |
| Corporate Manslaughter | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Dr TL Chambers OBE JP FRCP | |
| Elected Medical Secretary: Alan Montague FRCS | ||
2005 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Computer Derived Evidence | Jan 20th |
| Professor Neil Bartlett: Technical Director, Information Risk Management plc, Visiting Professor, Computer Crime, Cranfield University. | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol | Feb 25th |
| Speaker: Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss DBE | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | To Sleep, Perchance to Offend | March 17th |
| Dr Jonathan Bird, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, The Burden Centre, Bristol | ||
| Members’ Papers | Frank Walters: “Better to light a candle than curse the darkness”. Bringing Anaesthesia to Deprived Parts of the World | May 12th |
| Bill Owen: The Employment Tribunal: “Claimants always win, don’t they?” | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Gatcombe Court | June 17th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Success is a Funeral: Practicalities of the Identification Procedures in the Recent Tsunami Tragedy in Sri Lanka and Thailand | Oct 27th |
| Dr John Robson: President, British Association for Forensic Odontology | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Rotten Eggs in the Omlette, Can We Identify Poorly Performing Doctors Without Embarking on an Expensive Witch-Hunt? | Nov 24th |
| AGM | Prof Christopher Bulstrode, Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University of Oxford, Member of the GMC | |
2004 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Governing a modern Prison – Preparing For Release | Jan 22nd |
| Miss Veronica O’Dea, Governor HMP and YOI Ashfield | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Mansion House, Bristol | Feb 27th |
| Ch Timberlay, Bordeaux Superieur 1998 | Speaker Dr Phil Hammond | |
| Ordinary Meeting | Alzheimer’ Disease, A Suitable Case For Treatment | March 25th |
| Prof Gordon Wilcock, Professor in Care of the Elderly, University of Bristol | ||
| Members’ Papers | Tim Chambers: Salt Poisoning In Infancy and Childhood – Fact or Fiction? | May 13th |
| Alice Roberts: Time Team – the Skeleton Evidence | ||
| David Dixon: Signing Your Life Away? | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Gatcombe Court | June 18th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Men from Out of Town: Experts on Trial | October 21st |
| Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Forensic Animation – Does Graphic Evidence Aid Understanding? | Nov 25th |
| Dr Damian Schofield PhD, Lecturer ScHEME, University of Nottingham, Director, AIMS Solutions, Nottingham | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Mr Andrew Hannam | |
2003 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Internal Drug Smuggler | Jan 23rd |
| Mr Malcolm Clark, Detection Manager, HM Customs and Excise, Heathrow | ||
| Annual Dinner | Redland High School | Feb 28th |
| Speaker: Sir Graeme Catto, President GMC, Dean of Guy’s, Kings and St Thomas’s | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Tales of a Peripatetic Pathologist | March 20th |
| Dr Richard Shepherd, Head of Forensic Medicine, St Georges Hospital Medical School | ||
| Members’ Papers | Dudley Thomas: Current Confusion in Sentencing | May 15th |
| Richard Brown: Desdemona’s Last Gasp, Some Medico-Legal Problems in Shakespeare | ||
| Andrew Gregg: The Real 007 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Teeth Tell tales | October 23rd |
| Dr AW (Freddie) Martin, Forensic Odontologist | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy – A Medico-Legal Emergency | Nov 27th |
| AGM | Prof Peter Fleming, Professor of Child Health and Developmental Physiology, University of Bristol | |
2002 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Crime, Science and Crime Science | Jan 24th |
| Dr Tamara Burrows PhD, Senior research Fellow, Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College, London | ||
| Annual Dinner | Redland High School | Feb 22nd |
| Ch de Haux, 1er Cotes de Bordeaux | Speaker: Mr John Royce QC | |
| Ordinary Meeting | Ancient Egyptian Mummies: A Resource for Scientific Studies | March 21st |
| Professor Rosalie David, Director, Centre for Biomedical and Forensic studies, University of Manchester | ||
| Members’ Papers | Hugh Roberts: Why did we do that Malcolm? – The early years of the Bristol Medico-Legal Society | May 9th |
| Harry Espiner: Through the Keyhole – Is It Still on the Map? | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | June 21st | |
| Ordinary Meeting | Easing the Passing | October 24th |
| The Hon Mr Justice Hooper, President of the British Academy of Forensic Scientists | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Pitfalls of Medical Evidence | Nov 28th |
| Ms Mary Bennett, Barrister | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Mr Dick Elderton | |
2001 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Heads and Tales | Jan 18th |
| Mr Richard Neave, Artist in Medicine and the Life Sciences, University of Manchester | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Grand Hall, Colstons Collegiate School | Feb 23rd |
| Speaker: Mike Brearley OBE, Psychotherapist and former England Cricket Captain | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Who’s Calling Please? | March 22nd |
| Dr Peter French, Forensic Phonetician | ||
| Members’ Papers | Ronald Hiles: Medical and Legal Aspects of Acid Attacks in Bangladesh | May 10th |
| Paul Rumley: One Hundred Lawyers at the Bottom of the Ocean?…A Good Start | ||
| John Robson: Incident at the Long Tom Pass | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Zoo | June 22nd |
| Ordinary Meeting | Current Controversies in the Radiological Diagnosis of Non-Accidental Injuries | Oct 11th |
| Dr Stephen Chapman FRCP, FRCPCH, FRCR, Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Birmingham Childrens’ Hospital | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Death, Disaster and reconstruction: A Personal Perspective of Forensic Medicine | Nov 22nd |
| AGM | Prof Peter Vanezis, Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow | |
| Special Meeting | Soiree: Royal West of England Academy | Dec 6th |
2000 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Facial Disfigurement, – Its Causes and Consequences | Jan 20th |
| Mr James Partridge, founder and director, ‘Changing Faces’ | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Grand Hall, Colstons Collegiate School | Feb 25th |
| Speaker: Sir David Ramsbottom GCB CBE, Chief Inspector of HM Prisons | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The work of the Police Complaints Authority – a Medical Focus | March 23rd |
| Mrs Molly Meacher, Deputy Chairman, Police Complaints Authority | ||
| Members’ Papers | ‘A day in the life of…’ | May 11th |
| Jonathan Musgrave: Pre-clinical Dean, Faculty of Medicine | ||
| Primrose Salt: Dental Surgeon | ||
| Ian Glenn QC: Barrister | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Prior Park, Bath | 7th July |
| Ordinary Meeting | Rights or Wrongs? The Role of the Courts | Oct 19th |
| Sir Robert Carswell, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Harold Shipman – The Pathologist’s View | Nov 23rd |
| Dr John Rutherford, Home Office Pathologist | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Dr Ronnie Barber | |
1999 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Body Alteration and the Law | Jan 21st |
| Lois Bibbings, Co-founder, Centre for Law and Gender Studies, University of Bristol | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Grand Hall, Colstons Collegiate School | Feb 26th |
| Ch Montrose 1985 | Speaker: Sir Neil Butterfield QC | |
| Ordinary Meeting | How the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Works | March 25th |
| Mr Michael Lewer QC, Chairman, CICA | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The GMC: Setting Standards? | May 6th |
| Sir Cyril Chantler, Council Member GMC, Dean of UMDS of Guy’s, Kings and St Thomas’s | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Clifton Hill House | June 30th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Sports Psychology | Oct 21st |
| Dr Steve Bull, Sports Psychologist to England and Wales Cricket Board | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Mauritius; a Policing Experience | Dec 9th |
| Mr David Shattock, personal adviser to the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Retired Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset | ||
| AGM | Subscription raised to £20 | |
1998 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Pathologist’s Contribution to Fatal Accident Investigations | Jan 21st |
| Air Commodore Tony Cullen RAF | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 27th |
| Portada (Estramadura) 1995 Tinto | Speaker: Prof Walter Nimmo | |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Right to Die | March 19th |
| Margaret Branthwaite, Barrister, Consultant Anaesthetist | ||
| Members’ Papers | Richard Elderton: Has your dentist ripped you off? | May 7th |
| Bernard Rowe: Whiplash injuries and their problems | ||
| Ivor Doney: Don’t meddle with our drink driving laws – One man’s view | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | The Orangery at Goldeney Hall | July 3rd |
| Ordinary Meeting | Art, Surgery and Transplantation | Oct 8th |
| Sir Roy Yorke Calne, General Surgeon, Cambridge | ||
| Members Papers | Chris Torrance: Forensic Fables | Nov 19th |
| Robert Boyd: Tales out of school | ||
| Stefan Cembrowicz: Doctors in danger – violent patients | ||
| AGM | Elected president: Mr William Owen | |
| Special Meeting | Wine Tasting, Harveys Wine Museum | Dec 1st |
| John Harvey | ||
1997 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | What’s New in Medical Ethics? | Jan 23rd |
| Prof A Campbell, Professor of Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 28th |
| Rouge Homme, Coonawarra 1993 Shiraz/Sauvignon | Speaker: Prof James Owen Drife, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Leeds | |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Bedminster Body in Concrete | March 27th |
| Dr Hugh White, Consultant Forensic Pathologist, Southmead Hospital | ||
| Members’ Papers | Nigel Mercer: My journeys to Russia to operate on “the Red Kids” | |
| Thurston Brewin: Premum non nocere: above all, do no harm | May 1st | |
| Charles Clarke: The Clarke War Letters – Legal and Medical Soldiers – 1914-16 | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Leigh Court, Abbot’s Leigh | July 4th |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Mary Rose – Work from the burials from the ship. | Oct 9th |
| Dr Anne Stirland, Human Skeletal Biologist and Paloepathologist | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Forensic Entomology | Nov 12th |
| AGM | Dr Bryan Turner | |
| Special Meeting | Wine Tasting | Dec 4th |
| Avery’s Culver Street Cellars | ||
1996 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Samuel Pepys and His Doctors | Jan 18th |
| Mr Alan Amias, Gynaecologist, Former Medical Director, St George’s Hospital Medical School | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 23rd |
| Domaine des Ormeaux, Lussac Saint Emilion | Speaker: Dr AW (Sandy) Macara, President BMA | |
| Ordinary Meeting | Forensic Fraud | |
| Mr Hugh Tyrynis Thomas MD FRCS FRCS(C) Consultant Lecturer in Surgery | March 21st | |
| Members’ Papers | Tim Chambers: Phenylketonuria, and Care Proceedings: Sledgehammers and Nuts? | May 2nd |
| Elizabeth MacKenzie: Cervical Screening: To Sue or Not To Sue? | ||
| Richard Barnard: WG Grace, Cricketer and Medical Man Extraordinary | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Royal West of England Academy | July 5th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Serial Murder – Forensic Dental Investigation in the West Case | Oct 10th |
| Dr David Whittaker BDS PhD FDSRCS, Reader in Oral biology and Forensic Dentistry, University of Wales College of Medicine | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Bogus Doctors, Getting In, Getting On and Getting Out of Medicine | Nov 28th |
| Dr Joanne Hartland PhD, Senior Researcher, Cardiff Health Authority | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Dr Robin Weller | |
| Special Meeting | Tour of the new Crown Court, Small Street | Dec 5th |
1995 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Adolescent Murderers | Jan 19th |
| Dr Martin Gay MD FRCPsych DPM DCH Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Bristol | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 24th |
| Speaker: Dr David A Pyke CBE MD FRCP | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Windsor Castle and More | March 23rd |
| Mr Andrew Wade, MSc Senior Scientific Officer, Metropolitan Police Fire Investigation Unit | ||
| Members’ Papers | May 4th | |
| Summer Social Gathering | The Pathology of Terrorism | July 7th |
| Prof Jack Crane MRCPath, DMJ, State Pathologist and Professor of Forensic Medicine, The Queen’s University of Belfast | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Poetry, Prose and Paintings in War | Oct 12th |
| Dr J Campell MacKenzie FRCP, Consultant Nephrologist, Southmead Hospital, Bristol | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Nov 30th | |
| AGM | ||
1994 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Coroner in the Capital | Jan 20th |
| Dr Paul Knapman MB BS, DMJ Barrister. HM Coroner Inner West London | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 25th |
| Speaker: The Hon Mr Justice (Harry) Ognall | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy Child Abuse | March 24th |
| Professor Roy Meadow MA FRCP, Professor of Paediatrics, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds | ||
| Members’ Papers | Ivor Doney: Is your bite-mark as good as it should be? | May 5th |
| Stephan Jordan: Why Patients sue their doctors, a cardiologist’s view | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | July 8th | |
| Ordinary Meeting | A Resurrection | Oct 13th |
| Dr Hugh White MRCPath DMJ | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | ||
| Identification of the Romanov Family by DNA Profiling | Nov 24th | |
| Dr Peter Gill BSc PhD, Forensic Science Service, Birmingham | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Mr Jack Ross | |
1993 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Sport and the Law: Flanneled Fools and Muddied Oafs | Jan 21st |
| Mr Edward Grayson, Barrister | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 26th |
| Speaker: Professor David Purdie | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Death in the Bush | March 25th |
| Dr Ian West FRCPath, DMJ Consultant Forensic Pathologist, UMDS Guy’s and St Thomas’s | ||
| Members’ Papers | May 6th | |
| Summer Social Gathering | July 9th | |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Kaleidoscope Project – A Community Response to Druge Use | Oct 7th |
| The Rev Eric Blakeborough MBE | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Persistent Vegetative State, Medical Ethical and Legal Dilemmas | |
| AGM | Prof Bryan Jennett OBE FRCS, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow | |
1992 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Medical Aspects of Motor Racing | Jan 30th |
| MR ES Watkins FRCS, Professor of Neurosurgery, Royal London Hospital, Chief Medical Officer GP Racing | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council house | Feb 28th |
| Speaker Mr George Bonney FRCS | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Investigation of Serial Murder | March 12th |
| Prof MA Green, Forensic Pathologist, Sheffield | ||
| Members’ Papers | Adrian James: Law and disorder; the link between crime and mental disorder | May 7th |
| John Royce: Murder Most Curious | ||
| Hugh Roberts: The History of Artificial Hip Replacement | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | SS Great Britain | July 10th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Hostage Debriefing | Oct 15th |
| Dr David Stephens: Psychiatrist, Princess Alexandra Hospital, RAF Wroughton | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Bog Bodies | Nov 26th |
| Mr JB Bourke FRCS, Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Nottingham | ||
| AGM | Elected President: HH Judge Malcolm Cotterill | |
1991 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Wombs For Hire – Surrogacy | Jan 24th |
| Prof Sir Malcolm MacNaughton, Muirhead Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Glasgow | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 22nd |
| Speaker: The Hon Mr Justice (Charles) Mantell | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Huguenot Murders | March 13th |
| Dr David Whittaker, Department of Basic Dental Science, University of Wales College of Medicine | ||
| Desmond O’Neill: Driving and Dementia | ||
| Members’ Papers | Colin Sara: Racial Discrimination | May 15th |
| Ronald Pigott: “Up your nose” – Some problems of communication | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Psychology of Error | Oct 24th |
| Mr JW Chappelow, Principal Psychologist, RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | In Defence of Fault | Nov 21st |
| Mr MAMS Leigh, Solicitor, Hempsons | ||
| AGM | Subscription raised to £12 | |
1990 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Fiat Justitia: The Trial of Terrorist Offences | Jan 26th |
| The Hon Mr Justice Carswell | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 23rd |
| Speaker: Lord Carlisle of Bucklow PC QC DL | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Helping the Police With Their Enquiries: Recent Developments in Psychological Research on the Profiling of Offenders | March 29th |
| Robin Keeley in lieu of Professor David Cantor (DNA) | ||
| Members’ Papers | Tim Chambers: Euthanasia | May 16th 1990 |
| James Wisheart: Coronary Artery Surgery | ||
| Elizabeth Roberts: Legal Aspects of Transexual Surgery | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Crimewatch UK – The Making of the Programme | Oct 25th |
| Helen Phelps, Nicki Cheetham. Researcher, Producer BBC Television | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Hungerford Massacre | Nov 22nd |
| Dr Richard Shepherd, Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, UMDS of Guy’s and St Thomas’s | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Mr Hugh Roberts | |
1989 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Measures against International Terrorism | Jan 26th |
| Maj Gen Richard Clutterbuck | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 24th |
| Speaker: Mr John Rayne FDSRCS | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Medico-Legal Aspects of Defective Hearing | March 22nd |
| Prof Ronald Hinchcliffe | ||
| Members’ Papers | Rosalind Stanwell-Smith: Doctor Snoddy’s Revenge | May 11th |
| Campbell Mackenzie: The Forgotten Physician | ||
| Clive Gingell: The Sex Offender – Is There an Alternative to Prison? | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Zoo | July 7th |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Problems of Drug-Taking in Sport | Oct 26th |
| Mr Peter Coni OBE QC | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Taking Children’s Rights Seriously | Nov 23rd |
| AGM | Ivor Doney in lieu of Prof Freeman (DNA) | |
1988 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Princes in the Tower | Jan 28th |
| Dr Theya Molleson | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 26th |
| Speaker: Sir David Innes-Williams FRCS, Chairman ICRF | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Strange Tales From Canada and Australia | March 26th |
| Prof Derrick Pounder: Dept of Forensic Pathology, Dundee | ||
| Members’ Papers | John Westacott: Conciliation in Divorce: A Contradiction in Terms? | May 19th |
| Ian Bailey: Should there be legally required requests for organ donation? | ||
| Ken Gibson: Payment of experts’ fees – avoiding the pitfalls | ||
| David McCoy: Spencer Wells | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Zoo | July 21st |
| Ordinary Meeting | Genetic Fingerprinting | Oct 5th |
| Mr Ron Yaxley, Cellmark Diagnostics | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Forensic Aspects of Documents | Nov 24th |
| Mr David Ellis, Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory | ||
| AGM | Elected President: HH Judge John da Cunha | |
1987 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Heads and Tales | Jan 29th |
| Mr Richard Neave | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 27th |
| Speaker: Dr Douglas Acres OBE: Chairman, The Magistrates’ Association | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Current Issues In Sentencing | March 26th |
| Dr DA Thomas LLD, Trinity Hall, Cambridge | ||
| Members’ Papers | Rupert Bursell QC: The Water Newton Hoard | May 21st |
| Clive Gingell FRCS: Impotence – Fact Or Fiction? | ||
| David Ransom: Pure, White and Deadly | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | The Downs School, Wraxall | July 18th |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Hindawi Case | Sept 28th |
| Mr Gilbert Gray QC | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Medico-Legal aspects of Biblical Deaths | Nov 26th |
| AGM | Dr David Filer MD, Police Surgeon | |
1986 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Psychiatrist at a Siege | Jan 16th |
| Prof John Gunn, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 28th |
| Speaker: Prof Eric Wilkes, Professor.of General Practice, University of | ||
| Sheffield | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Gorgei Markov Case | March 27th |
| Mr Robin Keeley, Metropolitan Police Laboratory | ||
| Members’ Papers | Dr Peter Trafford: Dartmoor Prison and the American Prisoners in 1813-15 | May 15th |
| Mr Dudley Thomas: Humour in the Court | ||
| Dr Robin Weller: Don’t even get ill abroad | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Hiatt Baker Hall | July 4th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Sir Samuel Garth, the Dispensary Poet | Sep25th |
| Sir Christopher Booth | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Prosecution – In the Public Interest? | Nov 27th |
| Dr Jacqueline Tombs | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Dr Ivor Doney | |
1985 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Surgery in the Egyptian Old Kingdom | Jan 17th |
| Professor John Nunn, Dept of Anaesthesia, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 22nd |
| Speaker: Professor Alan Usher OBE FRCPath | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | In the Underworld | March 21st |
| Professor Laurie Taylor, Dept of Sociology, University of York | ||
| Members’ Papers | Professor John Clamp: Sailing Under False Colours | May 16th |
| Professor Gordon Stirrat: Capable of Being Born Alive | ||
| Dr Robert Reeves: Wives Who Kill Their Husbands | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Gatcombe Court | July 5th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Forensic Mythology | Oct 17th |
| Professor Bernard Knight, University of Wales College of Medicine | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Judging Women | Nov 21st |
| AGM | Dr Pat Carlen, Department of Law, University of Keele | |
1984 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Shroud of Turin | Jan 19th |
| Prof James Cameron FRCPath, Department of Forensic Medicine, The London Hospital | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 24th |
| Speaker: Gilbert Gray QC | ||
| Symposium | Drug Abuse | March 15th |
| Chairman: Dr Martin Gay FRCPsych, Consultant Child Psychiatrist | ||
| Panel: | ||
| Chief Inspector Tim Bryan, Head Avon and Somerset Drug Squad | ||
| Dr Julie Parker, Research Registrar, Avon Drug Abuse Monitoring Project | ||
| Dr Robert Reaves, Consultant Psychiatrist | ||
| Mr Dudley Thomas, Solicitor, Trump and Partners | ||
| Members’ Papers | Tim Chambers: Treatment of Renal Failure in Children | May 17th |
| Brian Cummins: Common Problems in Head Injury | ||
| Michael Furmston: Informed Consent | ||
| Ivor Doney: ‘Please Pardon the Smell’ | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Wills Hall | July 6th |
| Ordinary Meeting | ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’ | Oct 18th |
| Professor David Bowen, Forensic Pathologist, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Role of the Firearms Examiner | Nov 15th |
| Mr Peter Prescott, Forensic Science Laboratory, Huntingdon | ||
| AGM | Elected President Mr Charles Clarke | |
1983 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | ‘The Right to Recover’ | Jan 20th |
| Dr John Wall; Secretary, Medical Defence Union | ||
| Annual Dinner | The Council House | Feb 25th |
| Speaker: Prof Alan Usher, Home Office Pathologist | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Right to Life | March 17th |
| Michael Bell MA Chairman, Association of Lawyers for the Defence of the Unborn | ||
| Members’ Papers | Mr Jeffrey Phillips: The Bristol Accident Advice Scheme | May 19th |
| Dr Yvonne Wiley: ‘Unfit To Plead’ | ||
| Dr Peter Trafford: Diminished Responsibility | ||
| Summer Social Meeting | Hiatt Baker Hall | July 8th |
| Speaker: Dr John Parkes BBC: Wildlife through the Camera | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | ‘Don’t Die Abroad’ – The problems of investigating death from overseas | Oct 20th |
| Dr Michael Green, Dept of Forensic Medicine, University of Leeds | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dialect and Voice Identification | Nov 19th |
| AGM | Mr Stanley Ellis MA MIL, School of English, University of Leeds | |
1982 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Yorkshire Ripper | Jan 21st |
| Prof DJ Gee | ||
| Annual Dinner | Royal West of England Academy | Feb 26th |
| Guimarra Cabernet Sauvignon | Speaker: Richard Du Cann QC | |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Armoury of the Terrorist | March 18th |
| Mr HJ Yallop OBE, MSc FRIC | ||
| Members’ Papers | May 20th | |
| Summer Social Gathering | July 2nd | |
| Ordinary Meeting | What You Eat Is My Business | Sept 16th |
| Mr Braxton Reynolds; Public Analyst, Devon County Council | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Development of Victim Support Services | Nov 18th |
| Dame Helen Reeves; National Officer, National Association of Victims Support Schemes | ||
| AGM | Elected President: HH Judge Sir Ian Lewis | |
| Beaujolais nouveau | Subscription raised to £6 | |
1981 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Does Murder Have a Message? | Jan 15th |
| Dr AC Hunt, Home Office Pathologist | ||
| Annual Dinner | Royal West of England Academy | Feb 27th |
| Speaker: Sir Reginald Murley PRCS | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Dr Gisli Gudjonson:, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London | March 19th |
| Lie Detection | ||
| Members’ Papers | David Berry: Whose skull was this? | May 14th |
| Roderick Denyer: Nervous shock | ||
| Philip Goulding: What to do with a drunken partner | ||
| Summer Social Meeting | Goldney Hall; Bristol Early Music Consort | |
| Ordinary Meeting | Confessional Evidence: ‘That’s not what I meant to say’. | Sept 17th |
| Dr AMP Kellam, Consultant Psychiatrist | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Royal Commission: Misguided Reform of the Criminal System. | Nov 19th |
| AGM | Dr John Baldwin, Dr Michael McConville, Birmingham University Faculty of Law | |
1980 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Recent Progress in the Scientific Detection of Crime | |
| Mr S Kind | Jan 17th | |
| Annual Dinner | Royal West of England Academy | |
| Pisse Dru 1979 | Speaker The Rt Hon Lord Justice (Fred) Lawton | Feb 29th |
| Members’ Papers | Mr ERF Deal: Motoring Law | May 29th |
| Dr Ivor Doney: ‘Poisoning can be fun!’ | ||
| Dr J Naish: Hysteria | ||
| Dr PA Trafford: Dartmoor Prison in the 1860s | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | Goldney Hall | July 4th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Role of the Expert Witness Called by the Defence | Sept 18th |
| Dr Julius Grant | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Sexual Violence, Fact or Fantasy? | November 21st |
| Mrs Margaret Puxon MD FRCOG Barrister | ||
| AGM | Elected President Prof David Berry MDS PhD | |
1979 | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Cancelled: bad weather | Jan 19th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Operation Julie | March 16th |
| Ian Kennedy QC | ||
| Annual Dinner | Royal West of England Academy | Feb 23rd |
| Speaker: Sir Michael Swann FRS, Chairman, the BBC | ||
| Members’ Papers | Dr Robin Weller: Arsenic to Anaesthesia | May 10th |
| Mr RJ Grogan: Tyre Marks as Evidence | ||
| Mr Hugh Roberts: Metallic implants in the Human Body | ||
| Summer Social Meeting | The Bishops Palace, Wells | June 29th |
| Ordinary Meeting | Clues at the Scene | Sept 20th |
| Prof Keith Simpson | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Crime and Personality | Dec 6th |
| Prof HJ Eynsenk | ||
1978 | ||
| Annual Dinner | Royal West of England Academy | Feb 17th |
| Speaker: HH Judge McCreary | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | The Bishops’ Palace, Wells | June |
| Ordinary Meeting | Organised Crime | Sep 21st |
| Det Chief Inspector George Barton, Coordinator, South West Regional Crime Squad | ||
| Ordinary Meeting; | Poisoning Forensically, Some Reflections and Doubts | Nov 16th |
| Dr Roy Goulding, Director, Poisons Unit, New Cross Hospital | ||
| AGM | Elected President: Prof John Mitchell | |
| Wine Tasting | Harveys Wine Museum | Dec 6th |
1977 | ||
| Annual Dinner | Royal West of England Academy | Feb 25th |
| Ch Grangey 1962 | Speaker Barry Hudson QC | |
| Members’ Papers | Legal Aspects of Family Breakdown: Mr Geoffrey Parmenter | Apr 20th |
| Homicide in Porphyria: Dr Peter Trafford | ||
| Preparation of Medical Reports: Mr James Black | ||
| Summer Social Gathering | The Bishops’ Palace, Wells | July 15th |
| Ordinary Meeting | How Much force Was Required To Produce This Injury? | Sep 22nd |
| Prof Bernard Knight | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | The Black Panther Trial | Nov 18th |
| Mr Gilbert Gray QC | ||
1976 | ||
| Annual Dinner | Dragonara Hotel | Feb 27th |
| Speaker Mr William Rees-Mogg. Editor, The Times | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Shortage of Transplant Organs: Medical and Legal Aspects | May 5th |
| Prof Roy Yorke Calne FRS | ||
| Ordinary Meeting | Senior Vice Squad Officer: Drug Abuse | Sept 30th |
| AGM | Elected President: The Hon Mr Justice Park | |
| Ordinary Meeting | Mr Donald Hawkins, HM Deputy Coroner: Function of the Coroner’s Office | Nov 12th |
| 9 vintages of Ch Batailly | Wine Tasting: Mr John Avery | |
| Ordinary Meeting | The Role and Work of the Private Forensic Scientist | Dec 2nd |
| Dr Julius Grant | ||
1975 | ||
| Inaugural Dinner: | Dragonara Hotel | Feb 28th |
| Speaker The Rt Hon Lord Justice Ormerod | ||
| The Original Council | President Dr John Apley | |
| Secretaries Mr Hugh Roberts (medical) | ||
| Mr Malcolm Cotterill (legal) | ||
| Members Mr Richard Gaskell, Mr Ken Gibson, Mr James Black, | ||
| Dr Jim Barber, Dr Ian Bailey, Mr Jack Ross | ||
| Symposium: Road Accidents | Invited speaker Dr GH McKay:, Reader in Traffic Safety, Univ of Reading | October 22nd |
| with Mr H Griffiths: New light on concussion | ||
| Mr RW Hiles: Facial injuries | ||
| Mr PH Roberts: Intrusion injuries of lower limbs | ||
| Mr P Fallon QC: Legal aspects |