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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
11 November 2013
Case Update: R (on the application of Hibbert) v General Medical Council, unreported
Decision by GMC to consider allegations made 6 years after the event, which was quashed by way of judicial review, to be treated as if it had never happened, leaving it open to GMC to consider that decision afresh.
11 November 2013
Regulatory Press Round-Up: November 2013
The NMC laid its annual report, accounts and fitness to practise report for the period 2012 – 2013 before Parliament on 14 October 2013.
30 October 2013
Case Update: McCarthy v Visitors to the Inns of Court and Bar Standards Board [2013] EWHC 3253 (Admin)
High Court declines to quash a decision by the Visitors of the Inns of Court to uphold a decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court to disbar a barrister. It was held that despite the fact that the claimant had been unfairly deprived of the right to cross examine a witness on all the evidence due to an unlawful decision of the Bar Standards Board not to disclose an earlier draft of a witness statement, such unfairness could not possibly have made any difference to the eventual result.
23 October 2013
Case Update: R (on the application of Leathley and others) v Visitors to the Inns of Court [2013] EWHC 3097 (Admin)
High Court gives guidance on the correct construction of the legislative regime surrounding the appointment of panel members in disciplinary proceedings in respect of members of the Bar.
11 October 2013
Case Update: High Court considers parameters of specific disclosure application
In the case of HTC Corporation v Nokia Corporation [2013] EWHC B16 (Ch) the High Court has considered the scope of an application for specific disclosure made under CPR 31, particularly in relation to the meaning of “control”.
