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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
11 June 2015
Damage limitation: do past indiscretions necessarily affect your career as a professional?
While most professionals will be aware that any transgressions in a business capacity may affect their membership of their professional body, it is easy to forget that indiscretions which occurred before you became a member of your professional body, including in your personal life, may also have a significant impact upon your career.
28 May 2015
Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline - April - May 2015
Recent news relating to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), General Medical Council (GMC), General Dental Council (GDC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Bar Standards Board (BSB).
28 May 2015
Case Update: Clarity urgently required on the test for dishonesty in regulatory proceedings as Administrative Court unable to rule on the issue
Kirschner v General Dental Council [2015] EWHC 1377
Judgement Date: 19 May 2015
Further to the cases of PSA v HCPC and David [2014] EWHC 4657 and Hussain v GMC [2014] EWCA Civ 2246, additional judicial comment has been made about the appropriate test for dishonesty in regulatory proceedings in the instant case.
22 May 2015
Case Update: High Court considers the power of a regulator to refer back to its Investigating Committee fresh allegations arising from the same facts as allegations already considered and referred by that Committee
R (Ireland and another) v Health and Care Professions Council [2015] EWHC 846 (Admin)
This was a judicial review of a decision by the Investigating Committee (“IC”) of the Health and Care Professions Council (“HCPC”) in which the IC concluded that they had jurisdiction to consider “new” allegations referred to them by the HCPC where those “new” allegations arose out of the same or substantially the same facts as those from which a previous set of allegations arose where those previous set of allegations had already considered by the IC and referred to the Conduct and Competence Committee of the HCPC (“CCC”). The judicial review was brought by two Claimants.
14 May 2015
Case Update: High Court terminate interim suspension of doctor facing gross negligence manslaughter charges following death of 6 year old child
Bawa-Garba v General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 1277
This was an appeal against the decision of an Interim Orders Panel (the Panel) of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) on 8 January 2015 to impose an interim suspension order on Dr Bawa-Garba for 18 months pending a final determination about her fitness to practice.