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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
30 July 2013
Case Update: R (on the application of Alami & Botmeh) v Health and Care Professions Council [2013] EWHC 1985 (Admin)
The High Court declines to quash the HCPC Investigating Committee decision that a psychologist, Dr Young, had no case to answer in circumstances whereby there had been expert opinion criticising the assessment that she conducted on the risk of violent reoffending by two prisoners convicted of terrorist offences.
30 July 2013
Case update: Kakade v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 2110 (Admin)
High Court terminates interim suspension order imposed by Interim Orders Panel of the General Medical Council.
18 July 2013
Case Update: The Queen on the application of Hassan and General Optical Council [2013] EWHC 1887 (Admin)
High Court allows appeal against sanction from Fitness to Practise Committee of General Optical Council; when does caselaw pertaining to one profession apply to another when it comes to sanction?
18 July 2013
Case Update: The Queen (on the application of) Adesina & Ors and the Nursing and Midwifery Council [2013] EWCA Civ 818
Court of Appeal holds that absolutist approach to statutory time limits in regulatory appeals can longer be said to be invariable, in light of ECHR jurisprudence.
18 July 2013
Case Update: Miller v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 1934 (Admin)
High Court quashes Fitness to Practise Panel’s (“FTTP”) decision to hear the whole of the General Medical Council’s (“GMC”) case against the Claimant in private on the basis that the GMC had failed to discharge its burden of proof for the need for any derogation from the default position of a right to a public hearing under Article 6 or for a need to derogate to the extent claimed.