Captivate Podcasts

An application by the General Medical Council to extend an interim order of suspension upon a doctor for a further eight months was refused on the ground of incomprehensible and indefensible delay by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal, and a period…

A general medical practitioner who was found by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal to have dishonestly altered medical notes without indicating that they had been so altered, appealed to the Administrative Court against the findings and resulting erasure from the medical…

A Circuit Judge drew attention to the appalling impact of a failing justice system on the welfare of children: Re K (Inability to Instruct Guardian) [2022] EWFC B4: HH Judge Wildblood QCA year after the parties separated and seven months…

An Approved Person appealed to the Upper Tribunal against a decision by the Financial Conduct Authority making a prohibition order against him following a criminal conviction. It was the first time the Upper Tribunal had to consider a case where…

A judicial review of a decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute a young teenager for the death of another boy, a non-swimmer, after he had appeared to have been pushed off a ledge and into a river.…

Almost four years after spending a three day mini-pupillage with a barrister, a young woman took her complaint of unwanted sexual misconduct to the Bar Standards Board after reading that the barrister had been reprimanded by the BSB for engaging…

Following a revenge attack between rival groups in October 2004, 17-year-old Sam Hallam was convicted of murder, conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm and violent disorder, and sentenced to  life imprisonment. His appeal was dismissed.  Years later the Criminal Cases…

An experienced commercial litigation solicitor, representing himself as an appellant against a decision of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, was unsuccessful in the Administrative Court in his attempt to overturn findings which resulted in his being struck off the Roll of…

In this appeal by way of Case Stated against the decision of a District Judge, the Court of Appeal was asked whether the offence of encouraging or assisting the commission of an either way offence contrary to section 45 Serious…

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, delivers the judgment of the Court of Appeal overturning a High Court Judge's decision to allow a claim for judicial review against the Minister for the Cabinet Office.  The decision concerned the award of…