Annual Personal Injury Seminar 2024
We are delighted to invite you to our Annual Personal Injury Seminar in collaboration with The Rehab Physio, SIA and Headway:
Maximising outcomes in Brain and Spinal Injury rehabilitation.
This all day event, taking place on 23rd May, is to support brain injury awareness week and spinal injury awareness day. It will be held in our Manchester Chambers and hybrid, by Zoom. The full programme can be found below.
The cost for the event is £50 plus vat with all monies to go to the SIA and Headway.
Lunch and drinks are kindly sponsored by The Rehab Physio.
We hope you are able to join us.
To book a place, please email the Seminars Team.
Programme
09:00 – 09:20: Coffee and registration
09:20 – 09:30: Welcome from Chair – Will Waldron KC/Chris Barnes KC
09:30 – 10:00: Christopher Allen – The Anatomy of the Brain
Chris will discuss the basics of anatomy and the inner workings of the brain, to enable practitioners to understand the significance of even subtle organic damage to the brain.
10:00 – 10:30: Pankaj Madan – Rehabilitation in severe brain injury
10:30 – 10:50: Sam Ashcroft – Headway
Sam will talk about how she became involved in headway 21 years ago, her passion for assisting those with brain injuries referral process and how you can make difference to Headway.
10:50 – 11:10: Coffee
11:10 – 11:40: Christian Taylor – Lessons from Hadley v Przybylo – Getting paid for attending rehabilitation meeting
Considering the recent Court of Appeal decision and the implications for those acting on behalf of very seriously brain injured clients
11:40 – 12:20: Rehab Physio – Intensity and Robotics in Neurological Rehabilitation
A brief tour around The Rehab Physio, a 3,500sq ft facility specialising in robotics and technology, whilst exploring the evidence-base and justification of intensive physiotherapy for those with neurological injury and illness. Including individual case studies following spinal cord and brain injury.
12:20 – 12:30: Conclusions from the mornings talks
12:30 – 13:10: Lunch
13:10 – 13:20: Welcome back
13:20 – 13:50: Chris Gutteridge and Trudi Moore – Interim Payments and Rehabilitation
Chris and Trudi will consider the issues which arise when negotiating and applying for interim payments to support spinal injury rehabilitation:
Funding for case management and discharge planning, how to approach the procedural requirements of CPR r.25 when seeking to fund housing, equipment and therapies. Lay
and expert evidence to support a contested IP application
13:50 – 14:20: Gerard Martin KC – Hydrotherapy Claims
How to succeed in making a claim for a hydrotherapy pool” post Ritchie J in the case of CCC
14:20 – 14:50: Andrew Ward – The Preparation of Expert Evidence: Perils and Pitfalls
Andrew will provide guidance from recent authorities on the main failings in the preparation of expert reports and how to avoid them.
14:50 – 15:00: Break
15:00 – 15:30: Matthew Stockwell – Planning, Organising and Maximising Accommodation Claims
How best to support a client with ABI or SCI from rehab or temporary accommodation into an ILT or permanent home, so you can improve their lives and assess care and other costs with confidence.
15:30 – 16:00: Spinal Injuries Association’s impact on the SCI Community.
Delivered by Support Network Manager Gary Dawson & Support Coordinator Norwest Dave Eastham.
Insight into life after spinal cord injury. Gary and Dave sharing their stories of life after becoming paralysed and how SIA help anyone affected by SCI live a fulfilled life.
16:00 – 16:10: Conclusions
16:10: Drinks
