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Dame Janet Smith recommended in the Shipman Report that the adjudication stage of the Fitness to Practise procedures of the General Medical Council should be undertaken by a body independent of the Council. The new body should appoint and train…

Antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs), a headline grabbing shoot-from-the-hip policy introduced by the Labour government in a desperate attempt to demonstrate that it could control unruly behaviour, are to be removed. Home Secretary, Theresa May, has indicated that instead police will…

Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, has announced that the Health Professions Council is to regulate social workers from April 2012 as part of a shake up of the Department of Health’s arm’s length bodies. The General Social Care Council will be…

The boundaries of misconduct and how closely it must be linked to the professional’s calling were examined recently by the Court of Appeal in Remedy UK Ltd, R (on the application of) v The General Medical Council [2010] EWHC 1245…

Judges appear to be distancing themselves from the dicta of Davis J in Shiek v General Dental [2007] EWHC 2972 (Admin) when he said “… if the public interest is to be invoked … then that to my mind, does…

The case of Bradshaw v General Medical Council [2010] EWHC 1296 (Admin) (04 June 2010) demonstrates the difficult balancing act regulators find themselves in when deciding whether to apply for an interim suspension order on public interest grounds. Dr Bradshaw…

Article 6(3) of the European Convention on Human Rights provides: …everyone charged with a criminal offence has the following minimum rights … (d) to examine or have examined witnesses against him … Albert and Le Compte v Belgium (1983) 5…

Lord Devlin, one of the greatest English judges of the last century, wrote: Each jury is a little parliament. The jury sense is the parliamentary sense. I cannot see the one dying and the other surviving. The first object of…