Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers: Winner – ARDL Mentor of the Year Award 2024 & 2022
Has Brexit so-called demonstrated a betrayal of Parliamentary Democracy? Has the system which served this country for centuries outlived its usefulness? What is abundantly clear to the United Kingdom electorate is that parliamentarians, as a group, seem to be…
The cruelty of Donald Trump is not something one would normally associate with a president of the United States of America. Almost by the day this president’s cruel conduct becomes more outrageous, and the greater the adverse reaction he provokes…
Much has been written and broadcast recently about Jeremy Thorpe’s innocence, deceit and lies which surrounded the events at the time and continues to do so. For those who have somehow escaped the saga, Jeremy Thorpe was one time leader…
The time has arrived for single judgments in the superior courts. From time immemorial it has been the practice for the judges frequently, although not necessarily always, to hand down multiple judgments. Two major cases in the last few days…
Health Care Regulators will be considering in 2017 how best to achieve their primary purpose of protecting the public whilst at the same time cutting their costs and reducing the burden of registrants’ annual retention fees. Any medical defence union…
A professional person is part of a community with specialised knowledge and expertise and, whilst that comes with certain privileges, it also comes with responsibilities. So professionals should always consider how their actions may be perceived by others and whether…
Disciplinary proceedings after acquittal in the criminal courts does not, of itself, make it inherently abusive for the same matter to be heard by a disciplinary panel. The concept of double jeopardy does not apply as between criminal and regulatory…
Interim orders in the public interest is a concept familiar to most healthcare regulators as one of three grounds on which an interim order may be made: generally speaking, an order may be made if it is necessary for public…
“Dishonesty” is not a term of art; in the normal way it bears its ordinary and natural meaning and it is usually unnecessary for a legal assessor to give a tribunal a specific direction about it. In most cases it…
Have we learned from the tragedy of seventeen-month-old Peter Connelly (widely known as Baby P) who was found dead in his cot on 3 August 2007? During his short life, Peter was subjected to continuous brutality resulting in extensive bruising…