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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
15 September 2015
Case Update: PSA finds sanction of 2 year caution unduly lenient after panel did not consider all the material circumstances of social worker’s dishonesty
Professional Standards Authority v Health and Care Professions Council and Gemma Williamson [2015] EWHC 2420 (Admin)
Judgement date: 10 July 2015
Fitness to practise allegations:
A Panel (the Panel) of the Conduct and Competence Committee of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) heard the disciplinary hearing against Ms Williamson (W) on 1 and 2 December 2014.
10 September 2015
The correct approach to the GMC considering complaints over 5 years’ old
A recent court decision has confirmed that no allegation against a medical practitioner should proceed further if more than five-years have elapsed since the actual date upon which the most recent events giving rise to the allegation took place, except where the General Medical Council considers it is in the public interest to do so.
8 September 2015
Security company directors ordered to pay large sum in private prosecution
On 1 September 2015, as a result of a private prosecution which we brought on behalf of the Security Industry Authority (SIA) in partnership with the London Regional Asset Recovery Team (RART), two security company directors were ordered to pay a total of £666,697 under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).
20 August 2015
The PSA - radically "Rethinking Regulation"
The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) has declared that regulation requires a “radical overhaul” in order to meet proposed changes to health and care services in the UK. In a report entitled Rethinking Regulation, published on 6 August 2015, the PSA sets out its proposal to “reshape” how regulation works.
19 August 2015
Scottish private prosecutions back in the spotlight
The Fatal Accident Inquiry convened to hear evidence in relation to the tragic events in Glasgow’s Queen Street on 22 December last year has once again raised the issue of the availability of private prosecutions in Scotland.
