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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
15 April 2014
Case update: Clery v Health and Care Professions Council, unreported
High Court Uphold decision of Conduct and Competence Committee Panel that social worker’s fitness to practise was impaired and that she ought to be suspended for 12 months.
31 March 2014
The meaning of ‘unacceptable’ professional misconduct
Dr Peter Spencer and General Osteopathic Council [2012] EWHC 3147 (Admin)
The appellant, Dr Peter Spencer, successfully appealed a finding of unacceptable professional conduct made by the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of the respondent Council, the General Osteopathic Council.
This article first appeared in the Journal of Professional Negligence in March 2014.
27 March 2014
Health and social care regulation: meeting the challenges
Although not all of the nine health and social care regulators were represented at the Westminster Health Forum conference on 13 March 2014, amongst those that were, there was one thing that was preoccupying them, the imminent publication by the Law Commission of the Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions etc. Bill, now expected in early April 2014...
11 March 2014
Case Update: The Queen on the Application of John Grabinar v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 4480 (Admin)
High Court quashes decision made by the Assistant Registrar of the General Medical Council on a case proceeding outside the five-year time limit and determines that it should be reconsidered.
11 March 2014
Case Update: The Queen on the Application of Ellen Mafico v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2014] EWHC 363
High Court dismiss nurse’s appeal on the basis that any legal misdirection by the legal assessor was not of sufficient importance to invalidate the decision of the Panel.