Chaynee Hodgetts
MBChB Theme Lead
Biography
Chaynee is the Theme Lead for Values, Law and Ethics (VLE) at Chester University Medical School. She is a criminal defence and inquest barrister, with a reputation for looking at cases differently, and her focus on each client as an individual. Chaynee’s further sub-specialisms include forensic science, maritime criminal law, maritime inquests, Higher Education inquests, and medical and mental health inquests. She currently accepts instructions nationally, with a focus on London and North Wales. Chaynee is an Honorary Lecturer in Emergency Medical Law at QMUL and the Blizard Institute – and has been involved with providing legal teaching on their MSc Emergency & Resuscitation Medicine since 2019. She is also Honorary Lecturer in Criminal Law (Department of Law), and Honorary Lecturer in Medicine: Medical Law (Department of Medicine) at Bangor University. Chaynee provides lectures in Criminal Law, Medical Law, and Emergency Medical Law for medical students and experienced doctors, at Bangor University and QMUL. She also assists in annual Admissions interviews for the North Wales Medical School’s MBBCh Medical Degree, interviewing applicants to the Medical School. She was the second contributor to the 5th edition of the leading national Undergraduate textbook in Criminal Law – Smith, Hogan and Ormerod’s Essentials of Criminal Law – assisting the principal author, Professor David Ormerod CBE KC. [Please click "See more" to read the rest...] Prior to practice, Chaynee spent over a decade as a University Law Lecturer and academic, teaching Criminal Law, Evidence, and Media Law, working as Head of Admissions for Law (Law Admissions Tutor), and as Director of an Innocence Casework Unit. As a member of Middle Temple since 2012, she was Called to the Bar in 2019, and qualified as a Pupil Supervisor with Middle Temple in 2024. She is Direct Access qualified, and able to accept instructions to act in suitable direct and public access cases. She is the Adviser (Lay Non-Medic) in Teaching & Learning and Examinations for the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath), Full Member of the Medico-Legal Society (MLS) and Full Member of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences (BAFS). She is also a member of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), the Inquest Lawyers’ Group (ILG), the Female Fraud Forum, the Honourable Society of Middle Temple, the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), Women In Criminal Law (WICL), the Peer Review Panel of the International Journal of Emergency Services (IJES), and a Fast-Track Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Chaynee is reading for her PhD by Published Works, an analysis of criminal law and regulatory frameworks in maritime and medical investigation and education. She is also studying with Lloyds’ Maritime Academy for a Postgraduate Diploma in Marine Accident Investigation. Before lecturing, she was a Deck Rating in the Merchant Navy, and, as a member of the Cruising Association, Young Cruisers’ Association, Royal Burnham Yacht Club, Royal Anglesey Yacht Club, and Bar Yacht Club, she maintains a keen interest in getting afloat whenever possible. Her seagoing qualifications and experience also provides useful insight in trials or inquests in maritime cases. She is also a Coastguard Rescue Officer (CRO), attending and assisting at 999 calls, emergencies, and Search and Rescue (SAR) on the coast of Anglesey. Chaynee also has a keen interest in pre-hospital care and pre-hospital emergency medicine. In addition to her legal work in this area, she successfully completed the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) Pre-Hospital Emergency Care (PHEC) Course, and is now an Associate Instructor on the PHEC. She is also a First Responder with GoodSAM for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Again, her qualifications and experience in pre-hospital care also provide valuable additional insight in trials or inquests of a medical nature.
Teaching and Supervision
Theme Lead for Values, Law and Ethics (VLE)