1. JUDGE JURY AND EXECUTIONER Medicine and the Law Gordon, Kate, Aaron and Lorraine

2. Objectives  Medical Law  Regulation and Revalidation  Curriculum Statements:  3.1 Clinical Governance  3.3 Clinical Ethics and Values-Based Practice  3.4 Promoting Equality and Valuing Diversity

3. Plan  Introduction to Law  Small Group Work  Negligence  Capacity  Consent  Feedback to whole group  GMC  Regulation  Revalidation

4. Case Law / Common Law  Encompasses  Civil Law (private disputes between individuals)  Criminal law (conduct between an individual and the state)  Law can be made by judges in court  Judges can extend, modify and develop rules  Precedent Based – refers to previous similar cases.

5. Statute Law  Legislation initiated by Government/Crown  aka. ‘Acts’  Expresses the will of a democratically elected Parliament  Failure to comply with statutory requirements may result in a criminal offence

6. SMALL GROUP WORK