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The Montgomery Judgement 10 years on: Where to next after McCullough for Shared decision making in healthcare?

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The Montgomery Judgement 10 years on: Where to next after McCullough for Shared decision making in healthcare?

Wednesday 29th October 2025 10am
St Catherine’s College, Manor Road, Oxford

Meeting Details


This one-day conference will explore the background to the Supreme Court Montgomery judgement 10 years ago and the impact it has had on shared decision making in healthcare since that time. Speakers include Lauren Sutherland KC, the lawyer who successfully took Nadine Montgomery’s case to the Supreme Court and Professor Jonathan Herring, a medical law expert from Oxford University.

This conference will bring you up to date on challenges to the judgement since 2015, changes in clinical practice and a view from a medical defence organisation on its implications for clinicians. It will include a view from patients and opportunities for discussion.

10.00             Coffee and Registration
10.30             Welcome and Overview of day                 Prof Ashok Handa
10.45             Why The Montgomery Judgement    Lauren Sutherland KC
11.15             A personal story                                         Gaynor Savarnejad
11.45             Interpreting McCulloch                            Prof Jonathan Herring
12.15             McCulloch and me Panel discussion    Chair Prof Ashok Handa
LS/ JH/ G with Q and A
12.45 Lunch
14.00             Clinical Perspectives Introduction Prof Bill Fulford
14.10             Challenges with Montgomery                         Miss Alex Cairns
14.30             Medicolegal perspective                          Dr Udvitha Nandasoma
14.50             Montgomery and Mental Health            Dr Kate Womersley
15.10             Montgomery and me                                Prof Ashok Handa
15.30             Panel Discussion and Q and A                        All
15.55             Close                                                              Ashok Handa
16.00             Tea and networking

For more details, please contact the Ruth Devaraj: ruth.devaraj@nds.ox.ac.uk 

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