Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers: Winner – ARDL Mentor of the Year Award 2024 & 2022
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) successfully challenged, on appeal, a decision by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) to dismiss allegations of breaches of money laundering regulations against the respondent firm: Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd v Dentons UK and Middle East…
In a doctor’s appeal against a decision of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal, Deputy High Court Judge Alan Bates considered (1) did the Appellant’s submission to the Administrative Court Office (ACO) of an Appellant’s Notice form and payment of the fee…
In a comprehensive and penetrating judgment, Deputy High Court Judge Alan Bates described the 32 disciplinary charges arising out of a collective grievance brought against a nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Council as an “extraordinarily high number” and concluded…
The Professional Standards Authority appealed a finding of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal that a doctor’s fitness to practise was not impaired: Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care v General Medical Council & Anor [2025] EWHC 318 (Admin) MacDonald…
The President of the Family Division examined the individual requirements for a parental order set out in s54 of the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Act 2008, each of which must be satisfied before the court could grant a parenting order:…
A doctor, described as a very experienced medical professional, appealed to the High Court pursuant to section 40 of the Medical Act 1983 findings by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal that his name should be erased from the medical register because…
The Court of Appeal held that Ritchie J misconstrued the provisions of the Dentists Act 1984 when, following a hearing of a dentist’s appeal he quashed a 9 months’ suspension order imposed under section 27B(6)(b) and substituted for it a…
The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) challenged a decision of a disciplinary committee of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) which decided not to make a substantive decision about a continuation or discharge of a conditions of practice order on…
After a Police Misconduct Panel imposed a sanction of a final written warning upon a former police officer who it found used his position of authority to sexually harass the appellant both in person and by email, following which Swift…
A retired good and committed, well-liked general practitioner who worked in the NHS for over 30 years had been, until 2019, a thoroughly law-abiding citizen and had never come to her regulator’s attention, but then following her entry into climate…