Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers: Winner – ARDL Mentor of the Year Award 2024 & 2022
The Supreme Court was called upon to determine the proper interpretation of a definition first used in one statutory context and then adopted and used in another context: PACCAR Inc & Ors, R (on the application of) v Competition Appeal…
13 July 2023 In order for a submission to succeed that a Medical Practitioners Tribunal had failed to give proper weight to the fact that a serious allegation of sexual assault made by a patient was inherently improbable, the court…
6 June 2023 This second appeal to the Court of Appeal is an illustration of the sad state of the system of court administration users are presently suffering: Walton v Pickerings Solicitors & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 602 Asplin, Nugee…
23 May 2023 A decision of the Fitness to Practise Committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (PSA) to suspend a nurse for a period of 12 months was challenged in the High Court by the Professional Standards Authority for…
5 May 2023 The Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed an appeal by the General Dental Council against a decision of Ritchie J who allowed in part an appeal by a dentist against a decision of the appellant’s Professional Conduct Committee,…
A case against a Practitioner Psychologist brought by the Health and Care Professions Council was dismissed by the Conduct and Competence Committee which found that there was no case to answer. There was no prima facie case: therefore, there was…
27 April 2023 The leniency of the imposition of a Conditions of Practice Order upon a doctor imposed by the Medical Practioners Tribunal in respect of inappropriate prescribing practices in 2013 and 2014 was challenged by the overarching regulator in…
7 March 2023 A registered Practitioner Psychologist appeared in person on his appeal to the High Court against a findings of misconduct and impairment of fitness to practise by the Conduct and Competence Committee of the Health and Care Professions…
5 April 2023 A surgeon uploaded videos to YouTube between April 2020 and October 2020 to the effect that the SARS-CoV-2 virus did not exist, that the pandemic was a result of a conspiracy between the United States, the United…
14 March 2023 A doctor who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder between an impairment hearing of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service and the sanctions hearing which ordered his name to be erased from the register, appealed to the Inner…