The Role Of The Criminal Law As A Response to Healthcare Violations
| Dates: | 29 May 2025 |
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| Times: | 10:30 - 11:30 |
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| What is it: | Webinar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | Adults, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Professor Sarah Devany, Dr Alexandra Mullock |
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This webinar will explore the relationship between scandals in the healthcare sphere and the criminal law, whether that be through scandal leading to the development of healthcare-specific offences, or the response of the criminal law to scandals around notoriously poor care or deliberate harm to patients.
Join Professor Sarah Devaney and Dr Alexandra Mullock as they discuss the appropriateness, or otherwise of the growing presence of the criminal law as a regulatory mechanism in healthcare and identify some of its merits and disadvantages in this sector.
Speakers
Professor Sarah Devany
Role: Course Director
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Sarah Devaney is Professor of Healthcare Law and Regulation. Her particular areas of interest are the regulation of health and bioscience professionals, patient safety and health justice. A graduate of Manchester’s distance learning Master’s in Healthcare Law and Ethics herself, she well remembers the challenges of juggling this study alongside the day job, and how the enjoyment of the fascinating subject matter helped enormously on that front.
Dr Alexandra Mullock
Role: Senior Lecturer in Medical Law
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Alexandra Mullock is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Law who joined the School of Law in 2011 after completing her PhD at The University of Manchester. Alexandra’s research interests focus mainly on End-of-Life Law, the legitimacy of ethically contentious medical interventions, the regulation of health care professionals via the criminal law and the law and ethics of cosmetic surgery.
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