Presented by Dr Mary Tumelty, visiting scholar to the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation, Monash Law
with guest commentator, Mr Nick Mann, Polaris Lawyers

Date: Monday, 31 March 2025
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Lunch provided with seminar commencing at 12:30pm
Venue: Monash Law Staff Library Clayton Campus, or Zoom (link to be provided on the day)   Please register via this Google form.

Dr Mary Tumelty is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University College Cork. Mary’s research interests include Medical Law, Patient Safety, Torts, Law and Emotion and ADR and she is experienced in empirical legal research.  Her work has been funded by the Royal Irish Academy, the Irish Research Council, and the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. She has also collaborated on projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). In 2019, Dr Tumelty was appointed to the Health and Social Care Professionals Council (CORU) (Ireland’s multi-profession health regulator) by the Minister for Health. She is also a member of the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee (HRCDC) (appointed by the Minister for Health in January 2021). Dr Tumelty’s research focus is interdisciplinary, examining the interaction of law with the practice of medicine.