Pelvic Mesh Litigation
A two-hour evening webinar on liability and causation in pelvic mesh litigation, with a consultant urogynaecologist and a clinical negligence barrister.
Dr Wael Agur and Gurion Taussig
Hosted by: PEERs (Professional Expert Empowerment and Resources), Spotlight Publishing Ltd
Pelvic Mesh Litigation brings together Dr Wael Agur, consultant urogynaecologist, and Gurion Taussig, barrister, for a practical evening on how mesh cases turn on consent, liability, and causation.
The session covers the range of mesh devices and the reasonable alternatives a patient should have been offered, the legal tests for informed consent after McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board, and the causation analysis that decides these claims.
Online. £80 per ticket. Times shown are UK time (BST).
Event details
- Starts
- 30 July 2026 at 20:00 BST
- Ends
- 30 July 2026 at 22:00 BST
- Timezone
- Europe/London
- Price
- £80
- Host
- PEERs (Professional Expert Empowerment and Resources), Spotlight Publishing Ltd
- Speaker
- Dr Wael Agur and Gurion Taussig
What we'll cover
18:55
Welcome and housekeeping
19:00
Overview of pelvic mesh procedures
Dr Wael Agur. Mesh devices for incontinence (e.g. TVT, TVT-O); mesh devices for prolapse (e.g. Gynemesh); symptom and QoL questionnaires; urodynamics; the Prolapse Quantification System; intraoperative technique and surgical standards.
19:15
Consent: the reasonable alternatives
Wael Agur. Physiotherapy, medical treatment, and pessaries; native tissue surgery (colposuspension and autologous sling); urethral bulking agent (UBA) injections.
19:30
Legal issues as to liability
Gurion Taussig. Informed consent; McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] UKSC 26; relevance of NICE guidelines; proof and documentation.
19:50
Q&A
20:00
Break
20:05
Consent: communicating risks
Wael Agur. Knowledge evolution (1998 to 2018); Royal College consent advice; national guidelines.
20:20
Legal issues as to causation
Gurion Taussig. The 'but for' test; material contribution; factual causation and the counterfactual.
20:50
Q&A
21:00
Finish
Flexible.