Medico-legal Masterclass - Capacity assessments
One Day Event
| Timings | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
| Location | Virtual Event, Online |
| CPD | 3 CPD points |
| Non-Member Fee | £93 |
|---|---|
| Consultant Fee | £70 |
| Higher Resident / SAS Doctor Fee | £54 |
| Core Resident / Retired / Subsidised Fee | £36 |
| Medical Student / FY Doctors Fee | £36 |
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Event Information
Speaker information
Georga Godwin
Georga Godwin is a senior lawyer currently practices as a Consultant and Freelance Solicitor, specialising in mental health and capacity law. She is an experienced human rights lawyer, specialising in representing forensic patients, children, especially those with autism. Georga also provides legal opinions and capacity assessments for NHS Trusts, ICBs, and Provider Collaboratives, mainly regarding risk-management strategies and legal frameworks for high-profile cases.
Georga was called to the Bar in July 2005 and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 2008. She is a member of The Law Society’s Mental Health Panel, and the Mental Health Lawyers Association.
Georga was short-listed for The Law Society’s Human Rights Lawyer of the Year 2018, (the only mental health lawyer ever to be nominated). She is a contributor to the Oxford Textbook of In-Patient Psychiatry (OUP, 2019).
Session overview
This session will cover the following areas:
- Overview of Capacity Law;
- Capacity Assessments: The Legal Tests;
- Capacity: Relevant Information;
- Capacity & Sex;
- Capacity to Commit a Crime???;
- Money Management;
- Capacity & Eating;
- Capacity & Suicide.
Watch on demand
This event will be recorded and available to all registered delegates to watch on demand. The recording will be available within two weeks of the live event taking place and will be emailed out to all registered delegates. The recording will be available to watch for 60 days from the event taking place.
Copies of speakers' slides will be included with the recording, but only in cases where we have received permission from the speaker.
We ask that all delegates ensure that their email address associated with their membership account is correct and up to date, as this is where all correspondence will be sent.
Terms and conditions
Please read our terms and conditions before making your booking.
For further information, please contact:
Email: division.events@rcpsych.ac.uk
Contact Name: Division Events Team
Contact number: 0208 618 4240
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