About this Event
Medico-Legal Society of Ireland Academic Day 2026
Theme: ‘The Living, the Dead and the Law: Ethics at the Edge of Medicine’
We are delighted to once again return to the Honorable Society of King's Inns for our Academic Day 2026. This year's conference will explore the ethical matters facing lawyers and medics in their day-to-day work in new and emerging areas of law and medicine. This highly topical conference will be of interest to anyone working in the medico-legal space.
Agenda
🕑: 08:30 AM
Registration & Tea / Coffee
🕑: 09:15 AM
Welcome
Info: Dr Zetti Azvee, President, Medico-Legal Society of Ireland
🕑: 09:25 AM
Opening Address
Info: Dr Sheila Willis, Vice President and Past President, Medico-Legal Society of Ireland
🕑: 09:40 AM - 11:40 AM
Session 1
Info: Chair: Dr Sheila Willis, Vice President and Past President, Medico-Legal Society of Ireland
🕑: 09:40 AM
The road to regulation of Assisted Human Reproduction in Ireland
Info: Professor Deirdre Madden, School of Law, UCC, Chair of the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority (AHRRA)
🕑: 10:05 AM
Genomic testing in reproductive therapies: Ethical and Legal considerations
Info: Dr Samantha Doyle, Consultant Clinical and Biochemical Geneticist with a special interest in Perinatal Genomics and Head of Department of Perinatal Genetics, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin
🕑: 10:30 AM
Assisted Human Reproduction Law in Ireland:Recognising or Regulating Families
Info: Dr Claire O’Connell, PhD in Family Law & Children’s Rights, UCC,
Senior Legal Researcher, Dept of Justice, Ireland, Board Member and Director at LGBT Ireland
🕑: 10:55 AM
The Human Tissue Act as it relates to Organ Donation and Transplantation
Info: Dr Brian O’Brien, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Cork University Hospital and Clinical Director of Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland (ODTI)
🕑: 11:20 AM
Panel Discussion Q&A
🕑: 11:40 AM
Brunch
🕑: 12:40 PM - 02:30 PM
Session 2
Info: Chair: The Hon. Madam Justice Denise McBride, High Court, Northern Ireland, President of the Northern Ireland Medico-Legal Society
🕑: 12:40 PM
Looking upstream: Commercial practices as drivers of ill-health and inequity
Info: Dr May van Schalkwyk, Research Fellow and Public Health Specialty Doctor, University of Edinburgh
🕑: 01:05 PM
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity)
Info: Prof. Mary Rogan, Professor in Law, Trinity College Dublin
The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 at the End of Life
Info: Mr James Watson, PhD Researcher, School of Law Trinity College Dublin
🕑: 01:45 PM
Who Owns the Body? Challenges within Coronial practice
Info: Dr Cróna Gallagher, Dublin District Coroner
🕑: 02:10 PM
Panel Discussion Q & A
🕑: 02:30 PM
Closing
Info: Dr Zetti Azvee, President, Medico-Legal Society of Ireland
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
King's Inns, Constitution Hill, Dublin 7, Ireland
EUR 100.00 to EUR 200.00
