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Saturday April 13, 2013 at 8:45 AM BST
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Sunday April 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM BST
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Jesus College 
Turl Street
Oxford OX1 3DW 

 
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Graham Colley 
Liberal Democrat Lawyers Association 
07785-311342 
chair@libdemlawyers.org.uk 

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'Law Medicine  and Ethics'

- The LDLA Oxford Conference  2013

The legal, moral and philosophical issues of  medical ethics, assisted dying and abortion. Issues on which we may never have a party policy, but ones that are the most important and should be debated  - Perhaps the most interesting and challenging conference of the year. 
The legal, moral and philosophical issues of  medical ethics, assisted dying and abortion. Issues on which we may never have a party policy, but ones that are the most important and should be debated  - Perhaps the most interesting and challenging conference of the year. 
                   PROGRAMME

Topics:

Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Assisted Dying, Amendments to the Abortion Act 1967

 

Saturday:

Presentations and discussions by experts and lawyers, 6

CPD points for 4 sessions of 1.5 hours

 

Sunday:

Discussions by experts, politicians and members of the House of Lords on legislation and policy. 2 CPD points for 1 session of 2 hours

 

SATURDAY

Session 1: Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine

 

8.45-9.00 Registration

 

Opening by Chair: Graham Colley

 

Speaker 1: Dr Paul J Fairchild

is a Fellow of Trinity College, University Lecturer in Pathology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and Co-Director of the Oxford Stem Cell Institute University of Oxford - an overview of scientific developments in the field of stem cell research and regenerative medicine and highlighting some of the ethical challenges, legal issues and commercial opportunities.

 

 

http://www.stemcells.ox.ac.uk/directory/paul-fairchild

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/37

http://www.path.ox.ac.uk/dirsci/cellbiol/fairchild

 

Speaker 2: Prof David Albert Jones

is the Director of the Anscombe Centre in Oxford - an authority on a wide range of biomedical and ethical issues and an exponent of the pro-life view.

 

 http://www.smuc.ac.uk/tph/staff/david-jones.htm (select research information)

http://www.bioethics.org.uk/detail/about_us/staff_and_fellows/david-jones

 

Discussion:

 

Session 2: Ethics and Regulation

 

Speaker 3: Dr Emily Culme-Seymour

works for Lawford Davies Denoon and runs the London Regenerative Medicine Network. the commercial landscape for regenerative medicine and the challenges it faces as a sector.

 

  http://www.lawforddaviesdenoon.com/index.php?katie-rouse-2

 

Speaker 4: James Lawford Davies

is a partner of Lawford Davies Denoon in London - an overview of the legal and regulatory issues in the field including intellectual property and patent law.

 

 http://www.lawforddaviesdenoon.com/index.php?james-lawford-davies

 

12.20-12.50 Discussion

 

14.15 Session 3: Assisted Dying

 

Speakers 5 & 6:
Adam Wagner and Isabel McArdle,
Barristers of One Crown Office Row, Temple will stage a mock trial to demonstrate legal, ethical, medical and practical
issues
They will discuss medical regulatory law and doctors' duties. This will a highly relevant discussion.
 
 

Discussion:

 

Session 4: Amendments to the Abortion Act 1967

 

Speaker 7: Kate Greasley

Stipendiary lecturer in law at Hertford College, Oxford. Kate will focus on proposed changes to the law, and will give some background about the current state of the law concerning abortion.

 

 http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/about/people/ms-kate-greasley

 

Speaker 8: Prof David Albert Jones

is the Director of the Anscombe Centre in Oxford- an authority on a wide range of biomedical and ethical issues. He has been involved in many of the debates and developments surrounding the conference topics. David is an exponent of the pro-life view.

 

http://www.smuc.ac.uk/tph/staff/david-jones.htm (select research information)

http://www.bioethics.org.uk/detail/about_us/staff_and_fellows/david-jones

 

 

17.15-17.45 Discussion:

18.00 – 19.00 Reception in the Principals Drawing Room

19.00 – 21.30 Dinner in great Dining Hall.

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After Dinner Speaker: Richard Dawkins.

 

http://richarddawkins.net/home/about .

 

SUNDAY

Sunday Panel:

The panel will focus on positive changes to the law and parliamentary policy and will include members of the House of Lords, House of Commons and senior academics.

We have invited:

Baroness Mary Warnock http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/helen-warnock/26511

Baroness Claire Tyler http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/claire-tyler/21638

http://www.libdems.org.uk/peers_detail.aspx?name=Baroness_Tyler&pPK=4ff400fd-90d0-4740-8a37-c877546b9ee6 Peer, CEO CAFCASS, Relate.

Dr Raymond Tallis http://www.raymondtallis.com/

Dr Evan Harris http://www.progress.org.uk/evanharris

NOTE - This is a provisional programme and is subject to change at the discretion of LDLA.

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PHOTOGRAPHS above

image :1Corner of Jesus College (watercolor by W. Matthison)
credit- Internet Archive and St. Michael's College Toronto and (2) http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/oxford/jesus/2.html

image 2 :The second quadrangle of Jesus College, Oxford.
Date 28 June 2007, 11:36  Author John Ward  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Second_quad,_Jesus_College_Oxford.jpg

image 3:   Dining hall at Jesus College, Oxford (dayve_ward, Nov 2012)                  http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g186361-d2273899-Reviews-Jesus_College_Oxford_University-Oxford_Oxfordshire_England.html