Dr Paul Knapman, DL

Career: medical practitioner and barrister; Surgn Lt RNR 1970; HM Coroner Inner West London at Westminster Coroner's Ct 1980-2011; hon lectr in med jurisprudence St George's Hosp Med Sch 1981-95, hon clinical teacher in forensic med UCH and Royal Free Hosp Med Sch 1985-2001, hon sr lectr in public health Imperial Coll of Sci Technol and Med 1985-2002; Langdon-Browne Lectr RCP 1998, Christmas lectr Imperial Coll of Sci, Technol and Medicine 1999; memb: Clinical Forensic Med Section RSM (pres 1997), Br Acad of Forensic Scis (memb Cncl 1982-86), Medicolegal Soc, Soc of Doctors of Law (memb Cncl 1996-), Coroners Soc (memb Cncl 1985-, pres 2008-09), SE England Coroners Soc (pres 1980); govr London Nautical Sch 1978-99 (chm of Govrs 1997-99); Liveryman Worshipful Soc of Apothecaries (memb Ct 1993-, Master 2006-07); FRCS, FRCP

Books and Publications: The Law and Practice on Coroners (jtly, 3 edn 1985), Medicine and the Law (1989), Casebook on Coroners (1989), Sources on Coroners Law (1999)