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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
21 October 2015
Good news, bad news - costs in private prosecutions
Former Leeds United Managing Director, David Haigh, learnt the hard way that costs in private prosecutions are a double-edged sword and an issue that requires careful consideration before embarking on such proceedings.
20 October 2015
Case update: High Court confirms ‘moral opprobrium’ is part of test for determining unacceptable professional conduct as Osteopath’s appeal is dismissed and admonishment sanction stands
Shaw v General Osteopathic Council [2015] EWHC 2721 (Admin)
Mr. Shaw (“S”), appealed to the High Court, against the decision of the Professional Conduct Committee of the General Osteopathic Council ("the panel") on 29 January 2015. The panel admonished S for unacceptable professional conduct, pursuant to section 20(2) under the Osteopaths Act 1993 ("the Act"), and found "conduct which falls short of the standard required of a registered osteopath”. The sanction of Admonishment is the least serious penalty that can be imposed upon registered osteopaths. Other sanctions available were conditions of practice, suspension and the most serious, removal from the register.
S‘s appeal was against the panel’s decision in relation to the finding of unacceptable professional conduct and that this decision was wrong, and therefore no sanction should have followed.
13 October 2015
Case update: Nurse succeeds on appeal after Court of Appeal (Scotland) find NMC panel failed to address registrant’s inadequate representation and wrongly accepted methodology put forward by NMC
D v Nursing and Midwifery Council Court of Session (Inner House, Extra Division), 4 November 2014.
D was a registered nurse and the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) case was that between 23 May and 6 October 2011, D had taken small to large amounts of the anti-nausea drug, ‘cyziline’ from hospital supplies without authorisation. The fitness to practise panel at the NMC found the allegations proved, and imposed a striking off order from the NMC’s register for serious misconduct involving dishonesty. D appealed against this decision.
30 September 2015
The end of self-regulation for charities? Government report recommends new fundraising regulator
In September 2015, a government commissioned panel published a review into the effectiveness of the current self-regulatory system for charity fundraising in light of recent high profile cases of malpractice. The published report details the current system of self-regulation and proposes a new approach, a sole regulator of fundraising practice established within a new co-regulation framework. The focus of the new regulator will be the fundraising practices used by and on behalf of charitable organisations.
29 September 2015
Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline: October - November 2015
Recent news relating to the Bar Standards Board (BSB), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), General Dental Council (GDC), General Medical Council (GMC), General Optical Council (GOC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).