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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
17 February 2021
No strike-off for dishonesty: A case law review of exceptional circumstances
In three recent judgments handed down by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (the ‘Tribunal’) – Solicitors Regulation Authority v Orton, Solicitors Regulation Authority v Panesar-Jagdev, and Solicitors Regulation Authority v McCullagh – the Tribunal found allegations of dishonesty proved but decided the circumstances fell within the small residual category of ‘exceptional circumstances’, thus warranting a more lenient sanction. In this blog, we consider recent case law in this area and, in particular, look at when the general rule of strike off for dishonesty has and has not been judged an appropriate sanction.
16 February 2021
Health and Social Care White Paper 2021: Where next for patient safety and professional healthcare regulation?
Last week, the Department of Health and Social Care published a white paper, Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all (the ‘White Paper’), setting out legislative proposals for a new Health and Care Bill, planned to come into force in 2022.
7 February 2021
Top tips for managing an accountancy disciplinary investigation
As an accountant or accountancy technician hopefully you will proceed through your career without becoming involved in any sort of disciplinary proceedings. However, you are not immune from being the subject of a complaint from a client to your regulatory body. Whether you are regulated by the ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA, ICAS or the AAT, there is always the possibility of an unwelcome approach by the disciplinary team of your regulator. Each regulator has a duty, in the public interest, to investigate complaints against its members. High profile complaints will usually be investigated by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), which has a similar duty to consider all matters referred to it, with a view to deciding whether disciplinary proceedings are required.
2 February 2021
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement – can UK qualified accountants still work in the EU?
Julie Matheson and Lucinda Soon consider the implications of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on UK accountants providing services in the EU.
21 January 2021
Beckwith v SRA – are there implications for the regulation of professional accountants who face sexual misconduct allegations?
In our fourth blog in our series on Beckwith v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2020] EWHC 3231 (Admin), we turn our attention to consider what impact, if any, this landmark decision might have on the regulation of professional accountants. While the case turned on some very specific features relating to the regulation of solicitors as contained in the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) Principles and Code of conduct, some parts of the judgment may have more general application.