Forensic sleep symposium: Neurological and legal challenges

Event Notes:

This meeting is to advance the understanding of the forensic presentation of sleep-related behaviours (parasomnias): their neurological basis, cognitive phenomena, forensic presentations, the evaluation of evidence, social and legal challenges and the nature of dissociation and sleep-related dissociation.

Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Professor of Sleep Physiology, University of Oxford. Vice-President of the European Sleep Research Society.

Professor Guy Leschziner, Professor of Neurology and Sleep Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, Author of “Seven Deadly Sins”, and other books.

Professor Francesca Siclari, Professor of Sleep Medicine University of Lausanne and Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam.

Professor Matthew Walker, Professor of Neurology at The Institute of Neurology, UCL Specialist in Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine, UCH, Queen Square.

Dr Christopher Idzikowski, Psychologist, former director Edinburgh Sleep Centre, former President of the Sleep Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Dr Neil Munro

Dr Zenobia Zaiwalla, Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy and Sleep disorders, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Ms Allison Summers KC, Head of Drystone Chambers

Mr Andrew Campbell-Tiech KC, Drystone Chambers

Dr Quinton Deeley, Consultant Psychiatrist, the Maudsley Hospital, Senior Lecturer in Social Behaviour and Neurodevelopment at the Institute of Psychiatry.

Dr David O’Regan, Consultant in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, the Sleep Disorder Centre, Guy’s Hospital. Senior Lecturer Kings College.

Ms Ramya Nagesh, Barrister 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square. Author of “A Practical Guide to Insane and Non-Insane Automatism in the Criminal Law”, and other books.