Mangalore: Workshop on ‘Role of a doctor in dispensation of justice’ was organized by Dakshina Kannada District Legal Services Authority, Mangalore and District Health and Family Welfare Department, in association with Wenlock District Hospital, Mangalore on Sunday.

Karnataka High Court judge Justice N Kumar in his speech said that Doctors have a very big role to play in the dispensation of justice in the court of law. If the disposition by medical experts in a case is partial or incorrect, the judgment passed by the judges will be erroneous.

Topics such as medical negligence, medico-legal autopsy, sexual assault and medical documentation were dealt with in the day-long workshop.

Principal District and Sessions Judge Uma M G, assistant director of Karnataka Judicial Academy, Bangalore S R Somashekhar, Additional Deputy Commissioner Sadashiv Prabhu, DK district health and family welfare officer Dr Shivakumar H S, Dean of Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore Dr M Venkatraya Prabhu, Superintendent of Wenlock District Hospital Dr H R Rajeshwari Devi and others were present.