Our Organisers

Dr Rajesh Munglani qualified from St George’s Hospital, University of London, in 1985. Subsequently gaining experience in A&E, paediatric medicine and eventually gaining the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He developed a strong research interest in the neurobiology of chronic pain states and also chronic spinal regional pain syndromes including reflex sympathetic dystrophies. He was appointed John Farman Professor of The Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1996 for his contribution to pain research. In 1995 He became a lecturer and Consultant in Pain and Anaesthesia and Director of the Pain Service at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. ln 2000 he accepted a post as Consultant in Pain Medicine and Lead Clinician at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds and developed an expanded multidisciplinary pain service. In 2009 he became an officer for the Interventional Pain Medicine Group of the British Pain Society and founded the Medicolegal Special Interest Group. In 2011-2014 he was elected to the Council of the British Pain Society. He also founded the Annual Cambridge Medico-Legal Conference in 2011. In 2016 Dr Munglani was appointed as an Honorary Consultant to St Thomas’ Hospital London. in 2021 he was a Consultant in Pain Medicine at the Royal Papworth Hospital Cambridge to help during the pandemic and since July 2023 he has returned to St Thomas’. He is Senior Editor of Pain News of the British Pain Society. He also is an advisor to the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman. In 2022 he became an Honorary Member of the British Pain Society and has been elected Vice President of the British Pain Society in 2023.

Stuart McKechnie KC is one of the leading catastrophic injury practitioners in the country and widely known for his speciality in maximising the value of claims. In the 2024 legal directories he has been described as “the leading quantum PI silk in the country” and “the king of quantum”.

He works for many of the leading personal injury and clinical negligence solicitor firms in the country and all of his practice is in the High Court. He is a past winner of ‘Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence Junior of the Year’ at the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards and Personal Injury Barrister of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards.

In 2021/22 Stuart has (conservatively) recovered damages with a combined capital value in excess of £150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) on behalf of Claimants. In JDF (a Child) v Hampshire County Council, he settled what at the time was the highest Personal Injury award ever made/approved by a Court in the UK, the equivalent of £28 million capitalised. This case was covered across the national media. More recently, in IXM v Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust he settled a long running birth brain injury claim for the capital equivalent of £33.2 million.

Stuart is one of only three Barrister members of the working party responsible for the Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases. He is the General Editor of the APIL Guide To Catastrophic Injury Claims (being the definitive practitioner guide to running high-value personal injury and clinical negligence actions).

Described in 2023 Chambers and Partners as “a sublime negotiator and fearsome advocate” Julian specialises in complex and/or high value personal injury claims. He is renowned for his exceptional understanding of expert evidence and excellent rapport with lay and professional clients alike. He undertakes a balance of work for Claimants and Defendants and has been a fixture in the professional directories for over 20 years, being noted also for his “superbly tactical brain”.

Dr Spencer is Consultant Psychiatrist at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.  He qualified from the University of Cambridge, and completed his training in Cambridge and Edinburgh. He has lectured at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, and he has practised as a Consultant Psychiatrist since 2008.  He was awarded the Donald Cohen Fellowship by the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2007, the Clinician Scientist Fellowship by the MRC in 2008 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016.

Dr Spencer has a particular interest in the interactions that can exist between physical and psychological conditions, particularly in chronic pain and psychological trauma. He has worked in NHS multidisciplinary pain clinics, has served as a Council Member of the Pain Section at the Royal Society of Medicine, is a Senior Fellow of the London Pain Forum, a member of the British Pain Society, the British Neuropsychiatric Association and the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine and of its Chronic Pain Special Interest Group, and a founding member of the Functional Neurological Disorder Society. Dr Spencer has prepared CPR Part 35 compliant expert witness reports for the Court since 2012, in personal injury and clinical negligence work. He has been a co-organiser of the Cambridge Annual Medico-Legal Conference since 2014.

Since March 2020 Dr Spencer has worked as Consultant Psychiatrist at the mental health First Response Service covering Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (which he joined in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to work on the front-line in mental health during the time of crisis), where he has broad and varied clinical exposure to a range of psychiatric presentations across the lifespan.