Jaime Lindsey

Jaime is an associate professor of medical law and tutorial fellow at Oriel College. She has a broad range of research interests, across areas including medical law, family law, alternative dispute resolution and access to justice. She adopts a socio-legal approach to her research and has experience in using qualitative and quantitative methods.

Jaime held an ESRC New Investigator grant (2022-2025) for her research on ‘mediation of medical treatment disputes: a therapeutic justice model’. The project used theoretical, doctrinal and empirical methods to analyse mediation’s potential to resolve disputes about the provision of health and care to adults and children. A video about mediation, produced as part this research, can be accessed here. 

Jaime has received support for her research from a range of funders including a small grant from the British Academy (2023 – 2026) for research exploring the experiences of child sexual abuse survivors in the family courts, a grant from the SLSA for research on mediation in the Court of Protection, and ESRC Impact Acceleration Account funding for research on improving participation in Court of Protection proceedings, securing the voice of the child in private family disputes, and, proportionality in health and social care decision-making. In 2022 Jaime completed an invited and independent evaluation of the use of mediation in the Court of Protection, based on a practitioner led mediation pilot scheme launched in 2019. 

Jaime's first monograph, Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law (CUP 2022) was awarded the Hart-SLSA book prize for early career academics 2023 and was shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize 2023. She has also published a co-edited book titled Grandparents and the Law: Rights and Relationships (Hart 2023) and a full list of publications is available below.