Agenda:

Morning: Specific Topics in Neuroscience and the Law

Chairs: Tracy Alexander, Siobhan Grey QC.

09:00—Registration

09:40—Welcome

09.45—Dame Bobbie Cheema-Grubb – ‘Setting the scene’    

10.05—Madeleine Payne (UCL) 'Adolescent sociocognitive development and implications for the law'

10.35—Dr Huw Williams (Exeter) – Head Injury in offenders.       

11.05—Coffee

11.25—Prof Heather Flowe (Birmingham) – Alcohol and substance misuse in offenders 

11.55 —Prof Keith Rix (Chester) Automatism cases as the law stands    

12.25—Prof Ronnie Mackay (De Montfort) – Automatism as the Law Commission proposes     

12.40—General discussion.

13:00—Lunch

Afternoon:  The future of Neuroscience in the Law.

Chairs:  Prof  Michael Kopelman, Siobhan Grey QC

Discussion/Debate: ‘Will Neuroscience change fundamentally the nature of court practice?’

14:00—The case for  -  Prof Adrian Raine (UPenn, USA)

14:20—The case for - Dr Nick Davis (Manchester Metropolitan Univ)   

14:40—The case against -  Prof Dennis Patterson (Surrey)         

15:00—The case against - Prof Andrew Forrester (Cardiff)

15:20—General Discussion from the floor.

16:00—Summing up (Discussants):

16:00—Prof Chris Frith FRS (UCL) (Neuroscience)      

16:15—Lord Hughes (Law)

16:30—Tea and Close

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