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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
30 July 2013
Case update: Kakade v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 2110 (Admin)
High Court terminates interim suspension order imposed by Interim Orders Panel of the General Medical Council.
18 July 2013
Case Update: The Queen on the application of Hassan and General Optical Council [2013] EWHC 1887 (Admin)
High Court allows appeal against sanction from Fitness to Practise Committee of General Optical Council; when does caselaw pertaining to one profession apply to another when it comes to sanction?
18 July 2013
Case Update: The Queen (on the application of) Adesina & Ors and the Nursing and Midwifery Council [2013] EWCA Civ 818
Court of Appeal holds that absolutist approach to statutory time limits in regulatory appeals can longer be said to be invariable, in light of ECHR jurisprudence.
18 July 2013
Case Update: Miller v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 1934 (Admin)
High Court quashes Fitness to Practise Panel’s (“FTTP”) decision to hear the whole of the General Medical Council’s (“GMC”) case against the Claimant in private on the basis that the GMC had failed to discharge its burden of proof for the need for any derogation from the default position of a right to a public hearing under Article 6 or for a need to derogate to the extent claimed.
12 July 2013
Health and social care regulation: one size fits all?
This week, Frances Patterson QC gave an early indication as to the likely outcome of the recent Law Commission Consultation on the future of the health and social care regulatory regime. Julie Norris was at the Lexis Nexis Disciplinary Law Conference and can report on what is likely to be contained in the new consolidating Act. Regulators planning their activities over the next few years may wish to read on…
