Professor Andrew Harris, HM Senior Coroner for Inner South London, will present a webinar on Detention Deaths on 23 September 2021. Detention deaths are very frequently Article 2 inquests conducted with a jury. Anton is HM Assistant Coroner for West London and a Member of the Faculty of Forensic & [...]
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has now given notice that it will press on with 129 fee increases, saying there was a strong justification for the proposals. The MoJ states that the proposed increases reflect historic inflation and are therefore not an increase in real terms. The new fees and fee [...]
Dr Anton van Dellen has published an article on expert witness short reports together with Mr Hugh Whitfield, a consultant urologist, in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. At the outset of an alleged medical negligence case, it is common for medical expert witnesses to [...]
Fraser Chambers is delighted to announce that Dr Samrat Sengupta will be commencing pupillage in October 2021. Samrat is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and has written 9 research articles, 3 book chapters and published 10 posters at national and international conferences. Dr Sengupta will spend part of his pupillage [...]
Pen portraits have frequently been used by families in inquests to provide a reflection of the person in life rather than in death. In inquests heard by a coroner and a jury, photographs and other imagery of the circumstances of the death may well form part of the evidence [...]
The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has recently published a report stating that compulsory ADR does not breach Article 6. In tandem, in his annual speech at Mansion House to HM Judges, the Lord Chief Justice pushed for early ADR. He said: All must have access to the courts and tribunals [...]
Dr Anton van Dellen accompanied Daniel Kawczynski MP when he met the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to hand him a letter about bridging the funding gap in a major NHS infrastructure project. The letter covered the advantages of the project, as well as identifying some of the causes of the [...]
Dr Anton van Dellen has been appointed as Lead Policy Advisor to a Member of Parliament. Anton will advise Daniel Kawczynski MP, who represents Shrewsbury & Atcham in Shropshire. Anton will assist in three policy areas, including reconfiguration of health services in Shropshire (Future Fit). Anton was previously a [...]
Dr Anton van Dellen joined Dr Kathryn Newns of Applied Psychology Solutions to present a webinar on condition and prognosis, hosted by Simon Berney-Edwards, the Chief Executive of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI). The webinar covered ways in which psychology and psychiatry experts could improve their condition and prognosis reports. [...]
Fraser Chambers is delighted to announce that Ferdi Ozer will be joining chambers as a pupil in March 2022. Ferdi is a partner at WML Group LLC (UAE), Advocate at Harwood Law Chambers (UK), International Associate at Capstone Legal (India), International Associate at Vanilla Law (Singapore), and Managing Partner [...]