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Nicola Greaney KC
Conference Chair
Nicola has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses public law, clinical negligence, personal injury, professional discipline, Court of Protection and costs. In clinical negligence and personal injury, she works on complex and high value claims including brain injury, spinal injury and serious psychiatric injury. She is experienced in group litigation.
She is often instructed in cases raising novel points of law.
Nicola is ranked as a leading junior in the directories in the areas of professional discipline, administrative law, clinical negligence, costs, Court of Protection and community care law. Her clients include individuals, NHS and private care bodies, a range of regulators and those they regulate, local authorities and private sector bodies. She is an experienced advocate and had conducted cases before a range of courts and tribunals including the Court of Appeal.
The Honourable Mr Justice Nigel Poole
2026 Keynote Speaker
Nigel practised at the Bar in Manchester where he became head of Kings Chambers in 2017. He was appointed as a QC in 2012. He specialised in clinical negligence, writing Clinical Negligence Made Clear – a Guide for Professionals and Patients, published in 2019, and a widely read blog on clinical negligence called Learned Friend.
He was a legal assessor for the General Medical Council Fitness to Practice Panels, a chair of the Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service, a Recorder, and a Deputy High Court Judge before being appointed a High Court Judge in 2020. He sits in the Family Division conducting family and Court of Protection cases, as well as sitting occasionally in the Administrative Court. He was the Family Presiding Judge for the North East Circuit from 2021 to 2025.
He is a member of the Contempt of Court Rules Working Group led by Lord Justice Edis and represents Family Division Judges on the High Court Judges Association committee. He takes a lead in the High Court on serious medical treatment cases involving children, making initial directions and allocating applications. He is on the editorial board for the Medical Law Review. He is a trustee of the charity Sing Inside.
Dr Raj Munglani
Consultant in Pain Medicine and Session Chair
Dr Rajesh Munglani qualified from St George’s Hospital, University of London, in 1985. Subsequently gaining experience in A&E, paediatric medicine and eventually gaining the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He developed a strong research interest in the neurobiology of chronic pain states and also chronic spinal regional pain syndromes including reflex sympathetic dystrophies. He was appointed John Farman Professor of The Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1996 for his contribution to pain research.
In 1995 he became a lecturer and Consultant in Pain and Anaesthesia and Director of the Pain Service at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. ln 2000 he accepted a post as Consultant in Pain Medicine and Lead Clinician at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds and developed an expanded multidisciplinary pain service.
In 2009 he became an officer for the Interventional Pain Medicine Group of the British Pain Society and founded the Medicolegal Special Interest Group. In 2011-2014 he was elected to the Council of the British Pain Society. He also founded the Annual Cambridge Medico-Legal Conference in 2011. In 2016 Dr Munglani was appointed as an Honorary Consultant to St Thomas’ Hospital London. In 2021 he was a Consultant in Pain Medicine at the Royal Papworth Hospital Cambridge to help during the pandemic and since July 2023 he has returned to St Thomas’. He is Senior Editor of Pain News of the British Pain Society. He also is an advisor to the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman. In 2022 he became an Honorary Member of the British Pain Society and has been elected Vice President of the British Pain Society in 2023.
Professor Tom Quick
Consultant Peripheral Nerve Surgeon and Session Chair
Professor Tom Quick is a peripheral nerve surgeon and clinical academic recognised internationally for his expertise. He holds honorary posts in most London NHS hospitals and provides clinical expertise in nerve injury for the whole U.K. as well as Iceland. He has successfully treated and supported rehabilitation of a wide range of professional sports men and women, internationals in rugby, cricket, football and horse racing.
In April 2013, he was appointed as a Consultant peripheral nerve surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore. He provided consultancy at Headley Court the Defence Medical Rehab Centre, Surrey in the Nerve Injuries of War clinic for four years. Professor Quick’s Doctoral thesis on the ‘Assessment of re-innervated muscle function‘ was successfully defended in 2018 earning MD(res) at UCL. He is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Orthopaedics & Musculoskeletal Science and a founding member and clinical lead for peripheral nerve in the Centre for Nerve Engineering (CNE) at UCL. He collaborates scientifically with a wide range of academic teams in London the across the UK.
He has published over 50 peer reviewed paper numerous book chapters and national guidelines in nerve injury. He is an ABC travelling fellow.
Professor Quick has had an expert witness practice for 10 years with a ratio of 70:30 between claimant and defence instruction. He accepts instructions via a paper free practice and has a turnaround of 3 weeks from receiving instruction to completed reports (with video and static image evidence). Tom has a wealth of experience in court appearances. Having appeared (both as a witness to fact and an expert witness) in personal injury, medical negligence, criminal and family courts. In all court appearances the side calling Mr Quick as an expert were successful. Senior Counsel Liam Reidy in Dublin comment that in under cross examination Tom was “brilliant and remained composed”.
Sarthak Jain
AI expert
Sarthak is a computer scientist, AI engineer, and co-founder of Minerva Labs, which uses AI to analyse medical records and process complex clinical data for the medical and litigation sectors. His background is in high-stakes systems and scaled infrastructure, having previously developed trading technology for a quantitative hedge fund. He read Computer Science at the University of Oxford and is an MBA candidate at MIT Sloan.
With a mother who practices pain medicine and serves as an expert witness, Sarthak grew up with an appreciation for the demands that medical-legal analysis places on professionals: the complexity, the rigour, and the inefficiencies that persist across the sector.
Minerva is purpose-built to address these, bringing AI-driven precision to a space where accuracy is non-negotiable.
Stuart McKechnie KC
Barrister and Session Chair
Stuart McKechnie KC is one of the leading catastrophic injury practitioners in the country and widely known for his speciality in maximising the value of claims. In the 2024 legal directories he has been described as “the leading quantum PI silk in the country” and “the king of quantum”.
He works for many of the leading personal injury and clinical negligence solicitor firms in the country and all of his practice is in the High Court. He is a past winner of ‘Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence Junior of the Year’ at the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards and Personal Injury Barrister of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards. In 2021/22 Stuart has (conservatively) recovered damages with a combined capital value in excess of £150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) on behalf of Claimants. In JDF (a Child) v Hampshire County Council, he settled what at the time was the highest Personal Injury award ever made/approved by a Court in the UK, the equivalent of £28 million capitalised. This case was covered across the national media.
More recently, in IXM v Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust he settled a long running birth brain injury claim for the capital equivalent of £33.2 million.
Stuart is one of only three Barrister members of the working party responsible for the Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases. He is the General Editor of the APIL Guide To Catastrophic Injury Claims (being the definitive practitioner guide to running high-value personal injury and clinical negligence actions).
Steve Hepple
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Steve Hepple qualified and underwent basic training in Sheffield. His specialist orthopaedic training took place in Bristol, Brisbane and Dallas during which time he developed a specific interest in foot and ankle surgery. Since appointment in 2002 to a consultancy post at North Bristol NHS trust his elective practice has been focused entirely on foot and ankle pathology. He has also worked as part of the major trauma team at Southmead hospital for more than 20 years. He is well known for his practice and development of arthroscopic foot surgery as well as primary and revision ankle replacement.
He has lectured extensively across the world, often representing the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society of which he was President in 2018. He has undertaken medicolegal work since 2000 initially in personal injury then in 2008 began to develop what has become a substantial practice in medical negligence.
Professor Dominic Regan
Legal Speaker, Writer and Broadcaster
Dominic Regan is a Solicitor (non- practicing) and is Head of the Knowledge Hub at the Frenkel Topping group. He is acknowledged as a pre-eminent authority on civil litigation and was described by Lord Justice Jackson as “the authority on all of my reforms“. Indeed , he was a personal advisor to Sir Rupert from 2010 until 2018 when the Judge retired.
Dominic is a columnist for ‘New Law Journal’ and ‘Litigation Funding’. He was appointed a visiting Professor by City Law School, London. Each year he gives over 100 talks a year to practitioners . He is wine critic at 'Counsel' magazine.
Dr Mark Alexander-Williams
Pain Consultant
Mark has been a pain consultant for 28 years. He worked in the NHS until 2022 and for the last 4 years he has worked in private practice in London and Essex and on his medicolegal practice. He as always seen pain as a very emotional construct and he used to spend his lunchtimes sharing stories and opinions with the psychotherapists in his team. He led his service in the NHS for many years and was instrumental in recruiting a psychiatrist to the team who soon became overwhelmed by internal referrals. He sees “Silo medicine” as the enemy of common sense. His practice is very solutions based.
Natalie Morrow
Orthotic Lead & Senior Prosthetist
Natalie Morrow is a Clinic Manager and Specialist Prosthetist Orthotist at Proactive Prosthetics and Orthotics. She brings a unique dual-discipline perspective, with extensive clinical expertise across both prosthetics and orthotics, allowing her to manage complex cases with a truly holistic approach.
Clinically, she is passionate about integrated rehabilitation, with a focus on providing individual-centred orthotic solutions that deliver measurable outcomes. She is particularly driven to modernise orthotic practice, helping bring this complex and often under-recognised speciality firmly into the 21st century. With a strong foundation in lower-limb prosthetics, she offers a uniquely informed perspective on current and emerging advances in orthotic technology.
Natalie has experience in medico-legal report writing across both prosthetics and orthotics, bringing a thoughtful and measured perspective grounded in evidence-based practice.
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Ben Seymour
Professor of Clinical Neuroscience
Ben Seymour is Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Oxford University, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He is best known for key discoveries about how the pain and injury system is organised in the human brain. He pioneered computational theories for the pain system, describing for the first time how mathematical principles could be used to describe how different brain regions process information to generate the behaviours we associate with pain, including defensive behaviours and pain perception. This has caused a paradigm shift in how we view pain - away from an imprecise and subjectively labile sense, and towards a highly precise sense tuned by multiple factors in a measurable way. More recently he has characterised the core components of the injury system of the brain, explaining how multiple symptoms such as pain, fatigue, mood change, sleep disturbance and anxiety, are all part of a coordinated adaptive response that prioritises bodily protection and recovery. This is formalised in terms of 'behavioural homeostasis', and captures the full symptomatic impact of injury, and gives new insight into why sometimes these symptoms persist beyond the recovery from injury.
He has worked previously at UCL, Cambridge and Osaka Universities, moving to Oxford in 2020. There, he plays a key role coordinating the Oxford Pain Network - probably the largest clinical academic community for pain in the world. He co-leads the Oxford Health Biomedical research Centre Pain Theme, and co-leads the new Pain Neuroscience MSc. He leads the national Chronic Pain Neurotechnology Network (CPNN+) focused on building capacity across the UK research ecosystem. He also co-leads the EPIONE project - a new £10m project developing new technologies to monitor and treat pain, based in the Oxford Centre for Biomedical Engineering. Clinically he co-leads the Oxford Sleep Clinic, specialising in neurological sleep disorders, with a core interest in the link between sleep, pain, and mental health.
Elizabeth Bayley
Specialist Foot/Ankle and Dance Physiotherapist
Liz is a specialist dance physio with ‘Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance’ in London and was the head physio on Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ from 2021-2024 in London’s West End. Outside of dance, she has worked with many UK professional sports teams including Chelsea FC and Harlequins. Internationally, she has worked with players from the UAE Pro League as well as medical teams from the NBA and NFL in the USA.
She teaches international courses on the foot and ankle and dance specific physiotherapy. She is a visiting lecturer for Hertfordshire University, teaching on the ‘Lower Quadrant’ module, and wrote the section on ‘Posterior Ankle Impingement’ for the new edition of ‘Clinical Sports Medicine’.
Liz also visits dance companies and schools seeing their more complex foot and ankle injuries, having worked with Elmhurst and the English National Ballet in this capacity. She works with professional dancers in London in shows such as ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake’, ‘Back to the Future’, and ‘Phantom of the Opera’. She manages injuries in dancers around the world via telehealth, including European Ballet companies and world champion Irish Dancers, returning them to competition level.
Her clinic is at ‘Until’ in Soho, central London. Her special interests are dance injuries, the foot and ankle, injury reduction, stretching and flexibility, hypermobility, and return-to-sport/dance rehabilitation.
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