Expert Prosecutions Panel

posted: 03/11/2009

Clive Anderson (the broadcaster and barrister) chairs an expert panel to discuss prosecution of HIV transmission issues.

London’s City Law School hosts an impressive pnel of speakers on 1 December, World AIDS Day, to debate the issues around the criminalisation of HIV transmission.
 

• What are the arguments for and against criminalising the transmission of HIV and other serious sexually transmitted infections?
• What are the legal principles that inform this complex area of law
• Wat factors should be taken into account when deciding to prosecute?
• Should public health considerations take priority over demands for retribution and punishment?
• What evidence is there that criminalisation works?

 

Your Panel of Pundits

Clive Anderson, Barrister & Broadcaster - Chair

Yusef Azad, Director of Policy & Campaigns, National AIDS Trust

Catherine Dodds, Senior Research Fellow, Sigma Research, University of Portsmouth

Arwel Jones, Team Leader of the Domestic Affairs Division Crown Prosecution Service

Matthew Weait, Reader in Socio-Legal Studies, School of Law, Birkbeck University and author of Intimacy and Responsibility, The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission.

Bookings
Place          Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB
map and directions
 

18.00 Registration, 18.30 Panel and discussion, 20.00 Networking & refreshments
 

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