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Publications Archive

2011

• Telehealth

• In whose hands rests the future of medical indemnity?

• Crime or care? The problem of cause of death and intention to kill, in end-of-life care

• Immunisation: Medical, Social and Legal Consequences

2010

• The Patel Case

• National Regulation of Health Practitioners – a new era in regulation

• Annual General Meeting, August 2010. Address by Prof Bruce Barraclough AO

• Genetic Testing

• Should drug use be legalised?

2009

• Medical Treatment: The Childs Right to Decide

• The ethical issues involved in decisions to treat or not to treat

• Should Sentencing Fit the Crime?

• Adversarial versus Inquisitorial Systems of Justice

2008

• Loss of chance of a better outcome

• Policing the New Terrorism

• Annual General Meeting - 2008 - President's Address

• Electronic Health Records

• Open disclosure: morally right but is it legally safe?

2007

• The London experience - The TGN 1412 Trial

• Asssessment of professional performance: where doctors tread, will lawyers dare to follow?

• Stem cell research

• Drug Abuse as a Defence in Criminal Cases

2006

• Advocates' Immunity

• Inside Madness: The Murder of a Psychiatrist

• Whistleblowers

• Overseas-Trained Doctors

2005

• Richmond Revisited

• Medicine and Big Pharma

• It's your right-but do you really want to know?

• Asbestos Litigation - The Third Wave

2004

• Tort Law Reform in Action

• The Damages Lottery

• Wrongful birth, wrongful life
• Hepatitis C

2003

• Bias in the expert witness - Understanding medical error (November 2003)
• Reducing adverse outcomes (June 2003)
• Reasonable prospect of success (March 2003)

2002

• Economy class syndrome (November 2002)
• A medically supervised injection centre (September 2002)
• Criminal profiling - a psychiatric confession (June 2002)
• The right to maintain silence (March 2002)

2001

• Corporatisation of the medical profession (November 2001)
• Patenting of medical procedures (September 2001)
• Reliability of the expert witness (June 2001)
• Withdrawing and withholding treatment (March 2001)

2000

• Junk science: Medicine and the law (November 2000)
• The Health Insurance Act - Medicare investigations (June 2000)
• The new professional negligence list (March 2000)

1999

• Competition law, policy and the medical profession (November 1999)
• Evolving perspectives in professional sexual misconduct cases (September 1999)
• Expert evidence (June 1999)
• The sale of professional standards (March 1999)

1998

• The Belanglo enigma (November 1998)
• Child sexual abuse (September 1998)
• Causation (June 1998)
• Restructuring Australia's Health Care (March 1998)