Committees & Misc

Committees, Etc.

  • 2012: DPhil examiner: University of Oxford
  • 2012: Specialist interviewer for Junior Research Fellowships, Merton College, Oxford
  • 2012: Peer reviewer: Age and Ageing
  • 2011: Chambers Bar Awards: Professional Discipline Junior Barrister of the Year
  • 2011 – Member of Royal College of Physicians Committee for Ethics in Medicine
  • 2006-2009 Member of Royal College of Physicians Working Party on End of Life decision-making
  • 2007 – Peer reviewer: Oxford University Press
  • 2006 – Peer reviewer: Journal of Medical Ethics
  • 2009 – Peer reviewer: The Lancet
  • 2006 Judge: Metropolitan Police Mock trial training
  • 2005 – Editorial Adviser: Contemporary Review
  • 2003 – Member of the Royal Geographical Society Fund Raising Advisory Committee
  • 2003 – Member of the Editorial Board of the UK Clinical Ethics Network
  • 2003 – Clinical Guidelines Research Group
  • 2002 Judge: Final of Inner Temple Mooting Competition
  • 2002 Examination of the fairness of the criminal proceedings against Benny Wenda, Secretary General of DEMMAK, an organisation seeking the independence of West Papua from Indonesia: Investigations took place in West Papua/Irian Jaya: On behalf of FPCN: Reports to FPCN, Amnesty International and International Commission of Jurists
  • 2008 – Founder member of International Lawyers for West Papua
  • 2001 Legal adviser to the CMF Medical Study Group: Drafted response to Lord Chancellor’s Department Consultation Paper: Making Decisions: Helping People who have difficulty deciding for themselves
  • 2000 -2001 Member of the Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law Veterinary Association Working Party on redress against the veterinary profession for infringements of welfare
  • 1999 -2005 Member of ITAC Working Party on Civil Litigation
  • 1998 Member of Bar Council’s Working Party preparing response to the Government’s Consultation Paper: “Civil.justice”

Invited Submissions to the Law Commission

  • 1997: Damages for nursing care and related expenses
  • Claims for wrongful death
  • Damages for personal injury: Collateral benefits

Directorships

  • 2005 – Director of the Social and Environmental Regeneration Fund, a UK Charitable company supporting several projects at Guludo in the Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique
  • 2008 – Trustee of the West Papua Foundation