- Senior Management and Board expertise
- Investigations and Inquiries for Regulators and Public Bodies
- Face to face training for fitness to practise panellists
- Fitness to practise and regulatory expertise
- Progression of backlogs, blocked or slow investigations
- Expert systemic and individual case reviews
- Regulatory, civil and criminal legal expertise
- Inspirational coaching and mentoring to their managers, teams and individuals
Barry Baines is a Solicitor Advocate and Member of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).
He displays enormous hands-on knowledge of professional regulation as well as extensive experience of the court structure in England & Wales and the European Court of Justice including most judicial and quasi-judicial tribunals which adds to his wide and detailed involvement in the British parliamentary process and the prosecution of crime.
Twice winner of the ARDL Mentor of the Year Award in 2024 and 2022, he has undertaken numerous assignments particularly for major public sector organisations including investigations and inquiries, drafting guidance, risk assessment reports, face to face training for fitness to practise panellists, training regulation officers and appointing external inspectors, repairing and renewing broken processes, providing expert case analysis and advice and reducing backlogs as well as mentoring, coaching and managing executives and other individuals.
He founded, developed and managed a substantial business in legal services with a turnover of £millions.
Major clients have included Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority; General Medical Council; General Social Care Council; Nursing & Midwifery Council; General Dental Council; Solicitors Regulation Authority; Crown Prosecution Service; Costs Lawyer Standards Board.
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I am not authorised to, and neither do I, provide legal services directly to the public.
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