AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel Meeting, Afternoon of the 28 November 2025, Grand Connaught Rooms, London

The 2025 AvMA Panel Meeting will take place on the afternoon on Friday 28 November 2025 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in central London, with registration and a networking lunch from 12.30. The meeting will close at 17.00. The annual AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel members provides the opportunity to meet, network and discuss the latest key developments and issues facing clinical negligence law.

PROGRAMME

12.30    Registration & networking lunch

13.30    Welcome and AvMA Update
Paul Whiteing, Chief Executive, AvMA;
Jayne Nicol, Panel Accreditation Manager, AvMA

13.50    Causation in clinical negligence: multiple and material, divisible or indivisible?
Darryl Allen KC, Barrister, Farrar’s Buildings

14.30    Assessing the impact and parent experience of maternity review processes: MATREP Study Findings (recorded presentation)
Professor Alexander Heazell, Professor of Obstetrics and Honorary Consultant Obstetrician, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

15.10    Refreshments

15.35    Unauthorised Conduct? The potential seismic implications of Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys 
Andrew Roy KC, Barrister, 12 King’s Bench Walk

16.15    Anonymity Orders
Leslie Keegan, Barrister, 7BR

16.55    Close of meeting