Dr Catherine White OBE
Clinical Director St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), Manchester, UK
This webinar will review the current state of non-fatal strangulation (NFS) with a focus on the proposed law changes. All clinicians should be aware of NFS and its significance. It is essential to be able to make an appropriate enquiry, understand current and proposed legislation, the symptoms and signs of these presentations, and know how to clinically manage and refer these patients.
Dr Catherine White OBE, Clinical Director St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), Manchester, has been instrumental in ensuring current legislation was reviewed and changed following her ground-breaking research. Dr White will be giving the key lecture.
Dr White has conducted extensive research into NFS among Saint Mary’s SARC clients. The results of this research led to the creation of a multi-agency working group, with members drawn from the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Probation Service, forensic pathology, as well as Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) colleagues from other departments, such as Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) and radiology.
This webinar will be available for registered delegates 30 days after on Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.
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Clinical Director St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), Manchester, UK
Solicitor, Centre for Women’s Justice, UK
Nogah is a solicitor specialising in holding the state to account for failures in policing and prosecution of violence against women and girls. She has 20 years of experience at a number of human rights solicitors’ firms doing civil cases against the police and public law challenges. She now heads the pro bono legal advice team at the charity Centre for Women’s Justice.
Nogah provides training to frontline domestic abuse workers on the criminal justice system and was part of the campaign to introduce a new offence of non-fatal strangulation into the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
Robert White Professor of Laryngology and Clinical informatics at Southampton University, Consultant Laryngologist and Tracheal surgeon at the Robert White Centre for Airway Voice and Swallowing at Poole Hospital, UK
Queens Counsel, Attorney General of the Northern Circuit, UK
Dr Helena Thornton, Forensic Physician at St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Expert Witness
Dr Cath White, Clinical Director, St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), Manchester, UK
Professor Reza Nouraei, Robert White Professor of Laryngology and Clinical informatics at Southampton University, Consultant Laryngologist and Tracheal surgeon at the Robert White Centre for Airway Voice and Swallowing at Poole Hospital
Jaime Hamilton Queens Counsel, Attorney General of the Northern Circuit
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This webinar will be available for registered delegates 30 days after on Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.
This webinar will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.