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The End of Leasehold Flats? A Breakdown of the Draft Commonhold and Leasehold Bill
Úna Campbell
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.
12 August 2015
Case Update: Barrister’s appeal against dishonesty finding dismissed after barrister drafted false Grounds of Appeal
14 May 2015
Sukul v Bar Standards Board [2015] EWHC 2338 (Admin)
The original complaint against Mr Sukul (‘S’) originated from Master Egan QC, the Registrar of the Criminal Appeals, to the Bar Standards Board on 31 October 2012. This was after a hearing before Master Egan QC on 19 October 2012 in order to consider S’s failure to respond to the Court of Appeal’s Criminal Division (‘CACD’) invitation to draft perfected grounds of appeal and an accompanying advice. It was at this hearing before the Master that S admitted that he had no professional locus in the matters for many months, and that he had made it clear to his solicitors that there were no viable grounds for appeal. He stated that his solicitor had asked him to draft “holding grounds” and that he never intended those grounds to be filed but that he had meant to help his instructing solicitor who wanted to continue their relationship with the lay client who was at the time charged with murder. During the hearing, S stated that: “I helped my solicitors because they wanted to continue to work with Mr L for perhaps pure economic reasons. That is why, and I helped out because I wanted to continue to work.”