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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
5 June 2014
Case Update: General Medical Council (GMC) V Dr E [2014] EWHC 1620 (Admin)
The High Court declined the GMC’s application for an extension of an interim order on the basis that there had been a failure by the GMC to address the principle matters as set out by the Court of Appeal in General Medical Council v Hiew [2007] EWCA Civ 369.
5 June 2014
Case Update: Professional Standards Agency for Health and Social Care v General Medical Council, unreported
High Court finds that fitness to practise panel’s failure to find misconduct was unduly lenient.
5 June 2014
Case Update: Goodchild-Simpson v General Medical Council [2014] EWHC 1343 (Admin)
High Court gives guidance on the adequacy of samples in cases of deficient professional performance
16 May 2014
Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care v General Dental Council & Anor (2014)
High Court quashes finding of Professional Conduct Committee that dentist’s actions were ‘deliberately misleading’ but not ‘dishonest’, and agrees that reprimand was ‘unduly lenient’.
16 May 2014
Press Round Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline - May 2014
Marc Seale, Chief Executive and Registrar and Anna van der Gaag, Chair of the HCPC have commented on BBC Panorama’s programme ‘Behind Closed Doors: Elderly Care Exposed’. They have stated that ‘there must be a system of personal accountability in place to address poor care. Our proposals include enforceable standards and the ability to stop the incompetent and abusive from working in the sector. This would deliver more effective protection for the elderly and most vulnerable members of our society’. The Law Commission has published draft legislation that, if adopted by government, would enable statutory regulation to be introduced for occupational groups.
