Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers: Winner – ARDL Mentor of the Year Award 2024 & 2022
There is no statutory definition of death. Sitting in the Family Division of the High Court in University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation v The Mother of G [2024] EWHC 1288 (Fam) Poole J restated the principles to be…
A few weeks ago I wrote about delayed justice and late judgments which led to the sanctioning of judges: Justice Delayed: Judge Sanctioned for Late Judgment - Barry Baines I attached the article to a request to Richard Drax MP…
A former solicitor who was jailed for contempt of court for failing to deliver up documents to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and was thereafter sentenced to a further 12 months’ imprisonment for her continuing failure, having obtained a stay of…
In this doctor’s appeal, Ritchie J considered (among other things) that if the Tribunal’s decision was one that no reasonable Tribunal could make, then it would be held to have been wrong, but the courts had been trying to identify…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority was unsuccessful in its appeal to the High Court against an order for costs imposed upon it in the sum of around £75,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal: Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd v Tsang [2024] EWHC…
A nurse’s unsuccessful appeal against the carefully reasoned findings of a Fitness to Practise Committee that she had been dishonest, that her fitness to practise was impaired and the resulting striking off order, demonstrates the uphill struggle facing appellants in…
A social worker’s success before the Employment Tribunal against Westminster City Council and her regulator, Social Work England, for harassment on account of her protected beliefs, should send shockwaves through all regulators: Rachel Meade v (1) Westminster City Council (2)…
It is an unwritten rule that judgments should be delivered within three months of a hearing. The Court of Appeal has pronounced that this general rule should be adhered to even in long and complex cases, prompting Sir Geoffrey Vos…
14 March 2024 The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) unsuccessfully challenged the decision of a Fitness to Practise Committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council which had imposed only a Warning for conduct (in the form of unscripted comments) which was found…
2 January 2024 A social worker whose fitness to practise was found to be impaired by reason of misconduct in proceedings brought by Social Work England partially succeeded in her appeal to the High Court: Gleeson v Social Work England…