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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
6 January 2016
Professional regulatory hearings - looking ahead to 2016
Corporate Crime analysis: Julie Norris, partner and head of the regulatory and professional disciplinary defence team at Kingsley Napley LLP, looks ahead to the likely developments in 2016 in the area of professional regulatory hearings.
6 January 2016
GMC rethink required on anonymous complaints
Doctors are right to be concerned about the statistics showing the number of anonymous complaints that result in the launch of GMC disciplinary investigations. It is not the investigation of anonymous complaints per se that is contentious from my point of view (as the GMC points out, a complaint should not automatically be dismissed because the identity of the complainant is unknown). My beef is more that such complaints are not presently dealt with in a wholly different way to complaints made by an identifiable complainant.
This article was first published via Pulse on 5 January 2016. (subscription required)
5 January 2016
Talking therapists - what does the Statement of Intent mean for practitioners?
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and United Kingdom for Psychotherapy (UKCP) recently issued a joint Statement of Intent.
23 December 2015
Professional regulatory hearings - 2015 in review
Corporate Crime analysis: Julie Norris, partner and head of the regulatory and professional disciplinary defence team at Kingsley Napley LLP, looks at the most significant developments in 2015 in the area of professional regulatory hearings.
16 December 2015
Case update: A salutary reminder to regulated professionals and students on the use of social media
Ravindu Sahan Thilakawardhana v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator v The University of Leicester [2015] EWHC 3285 (Admin)
Before His Honour Judge Milwyn Jarman QC
