Dr Jaime Lindsey joined Oriel College as a Fellow and Tutor in Law in 2025 and is an associate professor of Medical Law at the Faculty of Law. She holds an LLB from University College London, an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King’s College London, and a PhD in Law from the University of Birmingham. Jaime is also a non-practising solicitor.
Her research interests include medical law, family law, access to justice and dispute resolution. Jaime held an ESRC New Investigator grant (2022–2025) for her project, “Mediation of Medical Treatment Disputes: A Therapeutic Justice Model,” which used theoretical, doctrinal and empirical methods to analyse mediation’s potential to resolve health and care disputes involving adults and children. She has received support from a range of funders, including the British Academy, the SLSA and the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, for research on survivor experiences in the family courts, improving participation in Court of Protection proceedings and proportionality in health and social care decision-making. In 2022 Jaime completed an independent evaluation of a practitioner-led Court of Protection mediation pilot.
Her first monograph, Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law, won the 2023 Hart–SLSA Early Career Book Prize and was shortlisted for the SLS Peter Birks Prize 2023. She is also co-author of Grandparents and the Law: Rights and Relationships.
Dr Lindsey’s research interests include:
Lindsey J, Doyle M and Wazynska-Finck K, ‘Securing therapeutic justice through mediation: the challenge of medical treatment disputes’ (2025) 45(1) Legal Studies 40
Lindsey J, Schuberg D and Browning J, ‘Medical Treatment Disputes and Children: An Empirical Analysis of Sixteen Years of Reported Judgments in England and Wales’ (2024) 46(4) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 582
Lindsey J and Danbury C, ‘Mediating disputes under the Mental Capacity Act 2005: relationships, participation, and best interests.’ (2024) 32(3) Medical Law Review 336
Lindsey J, Doyle M and Wazynska-Finck K, ‘Navigating conflict: The role of mediation in healthcare disputes’ (2024) 19(1) Clinical Ethics 26
Lindsey J and Harding R, ‘Capabilities, capacity, and consent: sexual intimacy in the Court of Protection’ (2021) 48(1) Journal of Law and Society 60
Lindsey J, ‘Competing Professional Knowledge Claims About Mental Capacity in the Court of Protection.’ (2020) 28(1) Medical Law Review 1
Lindsey J, ‘Testimonial Injustice and Vulnerability: A Qualitative Analysis of Participation in the Court of Protection’ (2019) 28(4) Social &Amp; Legal Studies 450
Lindsey J, ‘Protecting vulnerable adults from abuse: under-protection and over-protection in adult safeguarding and mental capacity law’ 32(2) Child and Family Law Quarterly