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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
26 September 2014
Regulators ask banks for better protection for whistleblowers…but can the Regulators maintain it?
Most will now be familiar with the proposals of the Financial Conduct Authority [“FCA”] and the Prudential Regulation Authority [“PRA”] which significantly change the way individuals working for UK banks, building societies, credit unions and PRA-designated investment firms are assessed and held accountable for the roles they perform. Embedded within the drive to encourage individuals to take greater responsibility for their own actions is a mirror obligation for individuals to take responsibility for their colleagues’ actions too.
11 August 2014
Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline – August 2014
Heath and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
On 01 August 2014, the HCPC published revised standards of education and training to reflect the new requirement that service uses and carers are involved in programmes approved by the regulator. It is hoped this involvement will help ensure that programmes are up to date with the expectations and experience of service users and carers and will ensure students gain wide ranging experience.
11 August 2014
Nursing and Midwifery Council v Devine [2014] EWHC 2541 (Admin)
High Court refuses application for extension of an interim suspension order due to lack of evidence of risk to public and undue delay in advancing to a final hearing of the matter.
Judgement date: 10 July 2014
11 August 2014
Case Update: Professional Standards Authority v General Chiropractic Council and another [2014] EWHC 2190 (Admin)
High Court agrees with PSA that case had been undercharged and that the sanction had been inappropriate.
Judgement date: 16 July 2014
11 August 2014
Case Update: Professional Standards Authority v (1) The General Pharmaceutical Council (2) Lynne Sidoh Onwughalu [2014] EWHC 2521 (Admin)
High Court holds that tribunal misdirected itself when deciding to proceeding in the absence of the registrant, and remit the case for rehearing.
Judgment date: 31 July 2014