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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
8 January 2013
Case Update: Tinkler v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2012] EWHC 3645 (Admin)
High Court dismiss an appeal in relation to the SDT’s findings on a particular allegation but allowed an appeal in relation to the sanction imposed.
11 December 2012
Case Update: Houshian v General Medical Council [2012] EWHC 3458 (QB)
High Court terminates Interim Suspension Order imposed by IOP of GMC, finding that it was not a proportionate response in the circumstances.
7 December 2012
What goes on in the House is reported by Kingsley Napley
The House of Commons Health Committee published its Fourth Report of Session on 3 December 2012.
29 November 2012
Case Update: R. (on the application of Chief Constable of Wiltshire) v Police Appeals Tribunal, [2012] EWHC 3288 (Admin)
High Court quash decision of Police Appeals Tribunal.
PW faced an allegation before a Misconduct Panel (the Panel) in July 2011 that he had breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour in 10 specific respects. In summary they were as follows: engaging in inappropriate and sexist text and email exchanges with his friend RM (including sending him a picture of a female work colleague and, on a separate occasion, sending him a text message that read ‘I’m here. Just waiting for the women to come and open up. I might rape her as there’s no one else here’), using his work email address to post inappropriate comments on a website, engaging in regular contact with RM who at the time was on bail for criminal matters (sexual activity with 14 year old), accessing a Niche record which related to the RM’s case and subsequently engaging in an email exchange with another officer regarding the case, and using his position as a police officer to gain membership of an angling club.
28 November 2012
Regulatory Press Round-Up: November 2012
- Health care regulators, including the GMC, the GDC, the GPC, the HCPC and the NMC, together with professional bodies and trade unions, have committed to “The Speaking Up Charter”.
- GMC report recorded, ‘The state of medical education and practice in the UK 2012’, that 23% more complaints were made about doctors in 2011 than in 2010, leading to 1 in 64 doctors being investigated by the GMC.
- GDC is urging dental professionals in the UK to give their views on its proposed new ‘GDC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics’.
- SRA launched its consultation on Co-operation Agreements and has published the associated Whistleblowers Charter. They invite any views on co-operation agreements before 23 January 2013.
- Bar Council published the second edition of the Bar Barometer, an annual report on statistical trends within the Bar. Key facts presented in the report included a figure of 15,581 barristers who hold practising certificates in England and Wales.
*All information correct at time of press and can be accessed on each of the individual regulator’s websites