Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers: Winner – ARDL Mentor of the Year Award 2024 & 2022
Public confidence has taken a knock in recent years and the integrity of the law has been challenged. As if the parliamentary expenses scandal were not bad enough with the subsequent but inevitable incarceration of prominent politicians, following on its…
On 2nd April 2014 the Law Commission published its final report and set out a new legal framework in its draft bill on the regulation of health and social care professionals. Nine councils* are governed by separate legislation and their…
To what extent do your private attitudes and comments reflect upon your public persona? Should you be watching your sexist, racist and homophobic comments in whatever private context they are made, or do they really have nothing to do with…
We can but wonder how many multinational brands with annual revenues of over £363 million and a Facebook following of over 46 million would permit their ostensible leader to choose his successor without open and fair competition. This is essentially…
Children's Services at Haringey Council which bungled its handling of Baby P who died in 2007, and eight-year-old Victoria Climbie who died in 2000, is still failing children big time and ignoring court orders in the process. In flagrant breach…
I’ve often wondered why my favourite chocolate seems to taste even better when it is in the shape of an Easter egg. Is it because the chocolate is thinner, because it is shaped differently or is it, perhaps, all in…
An unnamed fare dodger has been ordered to pay £43,000 to Southeastern Trains in damages and legal costs. £450 of that sum was in respect of legal costs incurred by the train company (so it appears that court proceedings had…
The general public may, perhaps, be forgiven for believing that politicians live in a wonderland of their own. From the outside looking in, it appears as if there are laws that apply to the vast majority of the population but…
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) describes treating domestic violence abuse as a poor relation of other police activity and condemns the police service. Home Secretary, Theresa May, describes it as depressing reading and has decided to lead a national…
Whether you are a manager or junior employee, you may be forgiven for failing to understand the gobbledygook of 360 degree appraisals. Your manager happens to be an obnoxious bully but you know management believes she gets results. So what…