LUND LECTURE - Air India Plane Crash, Role of the Coroner in DVI: Professor Fiona Wilcox, His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Inner West London
Date: 10/12/25
Time: 18:30
Venue: Bush House, King's College London
Prices
- Members: £40.00
- Non-members: £50.00
- Students: £20.00
Special guest speaker
Professor Fiona Wilcox
His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Inner West London
Honorary Professor, William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL
The Lund Lecture is an address given in honour of one of our past Presidents Sir Thomas Lund CBE. Keynote speeches have been given by senior members of the professions every two years hosted by BAFS. We invite you to join us for an excellent lecture followed by a drinks reception.
Professor Wilcox will present a review of the recent Air India crash looking at the incident from its legal and evidential perspective, and lessons learned from the disaster victim identification process, and the role of the Coroner in such disasters.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Fiona Wilcox is HM Senior Coroner for Inner West London, in post since April 2011. She is dual qualified in law and medicine, a Master at Middle Temple, and a Fellow of FFLM. She is currently President of the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales, and the London Coronial lead on DVI and Excess Death Management, with special interest and training in the management of mass fatality incidents and disaster victim identification. She teaches widely, including on the Masters Degree in Forensic Medicine at QMUL, where she is an Honorary Professor, Coroners’ Continuation Training, Middle Temple, Bart’s Anatomy Society, the police, and the Paediatric Law and Ethics course at Imperial etc.
She is one of the specialist sub-editors of Jervis on Coroners.
She trained as a doctor at the Medical College of St Bartholomew’s Hospital and was a GP in the East End of London before retaining as a barrister. She practiced in Criminal Law, and Professional Negligence based at Lamb Building and held Assistant Coroner positions in Inner South, East and North London and Kent.
She is an Apothecary and relaxes walking her giant dog.
VENUE
Lecture Theatre 1, Bush House, King's College London
How to get there
Bush House, King's College London
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