Past Events

 2025

  • Sept 26,2025: PART 1: Understanding Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) 

2023/2024

  • February 6, 2024: Mind the Gap: Navigating the Mental Health Maze in Post-Covid Ontario
  • October 2024: Law 101
  • November 24, 2023: Holiday Christmas Party

2019/2020

  • February 4, 2020: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:  From symptoms to treatment and everything in between

2018/2019

  • February 8, 2019: Holiday Cocktail Party
  • April 11, 2019: The Big Spring Debate
  • June 2019: Year End Event
  • October 9, 2019: Neuro-imaging, Traumatic Brain Injury cases
  • December 5, 2019: Holiday Cocktail Party

2017/2018

  • November 20, 2018: Holiday Cocktail Party
  • October 24, 2018: Knock Knock – Concussion & Post-Concussion Syndrome
  • June 12, 2018: Year End Event Summer Social - The Hamilton Club, Hamilton
  • April 26, 2018: Chronic Pain and the Opioid Crisis
  • February 8, 2018: Anatomy Lab – Hands on from Neck to Knees
  • November 24, 2017: Christmas Cocktail Party 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. The Hamilton Club
  • October 26, 2017: Medical Marijuana: More than a puff of smoke: Pot Talk II

2016/2017

  • June 16, 2017: Year End Event Dinner and dance. Liuna Gardens, Hamilton
  • April 7 - 8, 2017: The Forensics of the Bosma Trial - An evening with Tony Leitch
  • February 23, 2017: Law 101 An Interactive Courtroom Trial
  • November 25, 2016: Holiday Cocktail Party
  • September 22, 2016 - Anatomy 101

2015/2016

  • May 19, 2016: Magic, Mind Reading & Hypnosis… and Dinner
  • April 8 - 9, 2016: CAT Impairment Definition Changes & the MIG Treatment Protocol Project
  • February 22, 2016: Good Grief! Understanding Grieving Patients and Clients
  • December 11, 2015: Holiday Cocktail Party
  • November 12, 2015: Supreme Court Ruling on Physician-Assisted Suicide: Medical and Legal Implications
  • September 8, 2015: Expert Witness Training:   Surviving a Day in the Witness Box

2014/2015

  • April 10 & 11, 2015: Spring Getaway: How to prepare for the cross examination of an expert witness from both the lawyer's and expert's perspective
  • March 31, 2015: Medical Marijuana: Can we suck and blow at the same time?
  • November 28, 2014: Christmas Cocktail Party
  • November 13, 2014: Robert Munroe: I'm served with a subpoena, what should I do?
    Disclaimer: This PowerPoint presentation is a very general description only of some issues that arise when professionals are served with a Summons. It is not a substitute for legal opinion concerning a specific fact situation for which you should consult a lawyer of your choice and not rely on this presentation. Subpoena PowerPoint Presentation
  • September 29, 2014: Bones, Muscles, Trauma 101 & When Personal Injury visits the Family Doctor

2013/2014

  • June 6th, 2014: Year End Event – Mystery Dinner Theatre
  • May 2014: An opportunity to experience educational simulations @ @ McMaster University Medical Centre
  • April 11 & 12, 2014: Ethics in Medical-Legal Practice, Panel and Discussion
  • February 19th, 2014: Dr. Jane Storrie, Ph.D., C.Psych., ABDA. President, Ontario Psychological Association: The DSM-5: Expanding the Definition of Mental Illness to Catch Us All?
  • December 6th, 2013: Christmas Cocktail Party
  • November 6th, 2013: Kathryn A. McKague: Medical-Legal Reports and Testimony What Makes a Good Medical Report – Presentation
  • September 30th, 2013: Examination and Cross Examination of a Medical Expert

2012/2013

Dr. Roman Jovey: Opioids for Chronic Pain – Problem or Progress? Dr. Roman Jovey Opioids for Chronic Pain – Problem or Progress?

  • January 15th, 2013: Dr. Andrew McCallum, Chief Coroner of Ontario
  • November 23rd, 2012: Christmas Cockstail Party

2011/2012

2010/2011

 

About Company

The Hamilton Medical Legal Society was established by a group of visionary Hamilton area doctors and lawyers in 1960 to broaden contacts between the two professions. Since then, it has expanded to include professionals across the whole legal and health care spectrum.

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