UEA Law School offers the only undergraduate course in personal injury law in the country. Among areas under discussion will be patient consent, DSS benefits, identifying and meeting the needs of patients with head injuries and the importance of overall case management to satisfy all the clinical, legal and practical needs of each individual victim. Keynote speakers at the conference are Master Denzil Lush, Master of the Court of Protection, Dr Neil Brooks, consultant neuropsychologist and president of both the European Brain Injury Association and Headway, Cathy Johnson, Director of Rehab Without Walls, Barbara Gidney, of the Benefits Agency, and leading QCs Bill Braithwaite and Robert Francis. The conference, which builds on the success of an earlier joint conference on the theme, will be followed by a book, to be published by John Wiley, of New York and Chichester, who publish the international journal Personal Injury, produced by UEA School of Law and edited by Frederick Holding. Invicta Pharmaceuticals are sponsoring GPs' attendance at the conference, which takes place on the University of East Anglia's campus on Thursday, September 12.
Journalists are very welcome to attend.
Please contact UEA Press Officer Anne Ogden, on 01603 592764.