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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
28 November 2018
SRA Handbook: The 5 changes you need to know about
The Legal Services Board has now approved a comprehensive re-draft of the SRA Handbook. These new rules will be known as the SRA Standards and Regulations. These are due to replace the SRA Handbook at a date yet to be fixed between April and June 2019. Five of the key changes are summarised below.
27 November 2018
3,000 doctors face checks after psychiatrist who practised without a licence is sentenced to a five year prison sentence
The General Medical Council (‘GMC’) is urgently checking the qualifications of foreign doctors who were able to register in the UK under a now defunct provision in the Medical Act 1983 (‘the Act’).
19 November 2018
Latest drug controversy to hit British Cycling
Former Team Sky doctor to face GMC tribunal following delivery of testosterone patches. Dr Richard Freeman, former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor, is facing an investigation by the General Medical Council, (‘GMC’) in connection with testosterone patches that were delivered to British Cycling headquarters in 2011.
16 November 2018
Carrying out a reasonable investigation into a misconduct allegation – can an employer withhold evidence from a disciplinary panel?
The case of Hargreaves v Manchester Grammar serves as a useful reminder for employers of how to carry out a reasonable investigation, particularly when the employee in question is facing potentially career changing consequences as a result of the allegations. In this case the Employment Appeal Tribunal decided that it was reasonable for the employer to withhold the evidence of potential witnesses who “had seen nothing” - the Tribunal had been entitled to make this finding and reject the employee’s claim of unfair dismissal.
5 November 2018
FRC strategic review 2018: Developments in Audit
The high profile collapses of companies such as Carillion and BHS have reignited the debate about the effectiveness of statutory audit. In the FRC’s recently published report, Developments in Audit, the FRC grapples, not for the first time, with how to ensure that audit properly serves the public interest. Auditors can expect some pretty radical changes.
