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Suspension of the UK’s Refugee Family Reunion scheme: an afront to the principle of family unity
Oliver Oldman
7 August 2014
Professionals beware: your conduct outside of the office could be under regulatory scrutiny
If asked to answer truthfully, I am sure many professionals would, at some point, and to varying degrees, have acted in a way which was less than entirely honest. For most, this would have been an isolated event, which has long been put out of their minds. Few would have thought through the range of consequences of such an act; however, as a professional, acting dishonestly, or with a lack of integrity, could have wide-reaching consequences.
5 June 2014
Case Update: Professional Standards Agency for Health and Social Care v General Medical Council, unreported
High Court finds that fitness to practise panel’s failure to find misconduct was unduly lenient.
15 April 2014
Case Update: Choudhury v Solicitors Regulatory Authority
High Court gives further guidance on dishonesty
11 March 2014
Case Update: Fuglers LLP (in association with David Berens & Co), David Anthony Berens, Bryan Myer Fulger v Solicitors Regulatory Authority [2014] EWHC 179 (Admin)
High Court gives guidance on the proper process by which a Tribunal should determine sanction and the level of fine to be imposed.
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.