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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
11 March 2014
An Exception to the Rule: Recent consideration of Adesina & Baines v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2013] EWCA Civ 818
The decision of the Court of Appeal in Adesina & Baines v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2013] EWCA Civ 818 represented a clear shift in the previously immovable time limits of regulatory appeals.
11 March 2014
Case Update: White v Nursing and Midwifery Council and Turner v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2014] EWHC 520 (Admin)
This highly anticipated judgment from the High Court on the admissibility of anonymous hearsay evidence in professional disciplinary proceedings holds that “it is difficult to conceive of circumstances in which the admission of potentially significant evidence which is both anonymous and hearsay will not infringe the requirement of fairness” and finds that in the present cases arising from the Francis Inquiry, the evidence of anonymous members of staff was inadmissible and “should not have been relied on probatively”.
4 March 2014
Case Update: Amao v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2014] WL 517702
High Court allow nurse’s appeal, holding that she was treated unfairly when she appeared, unrepresented, before NMC panel considering her fitness to practise.
7 February 2014
Case Update: Isaghehi v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2014] EWHC 127
High Court replaces striking off order with 12 month suspension for nurse convicted of dangerous driving.