by admin | Nov 25, 2024 | Legal
Our client, RLN, instructed us regarding a registration issue. The HCPC were questioning his application and had referred him to a Registration Panel. He contacted us following a huge amount of communication with the HCPC but, thankfully, before submission of that...
by admin | Oct 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Seek Legal Advice It’s crucial to get expert legal advice early. Fitness to practise investigations are a trial in all but name – complex, formal and adversarial. For this reason alone, health and care professionals should seek legal advice. However, this is by no...
by admin | Jul 9, 2024 | Legal
When faced with a fitness to practise investigation, should health care professionals “wait and see” or does constructive engagement make a difference to the outcome of a fitness to practise investigation? Health care regulators will investigate allegations of...
by admin | May 4, 2024 | Case Study
With advice and representation from Kings View Chambers, we have secured a no case to answer for our client, who was facing allegations before the HCPC. In this case, our client was facing allegations regarding impaired fitness to practise before the Health and Care...
by admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Case Study, Legal
In a fitness to practise case that has been ongoing for a number of years, the HCPC eventually dropped the case against our client. In this case, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) decided to proceed with the fitness to practise case against our client,...
by admin | Jan 7, 2024 | Legal
Key points Regulator’s guidance must not be “slavishly” followed and that regulatory decisions must be made based on the individual merits of the case and taking into account all the relevant matters. Taking into account all the relevant matters and information, the...
by admin | Nov 25, 2023 | Case Study, Legal
Our client, a Radiographer, has been cleared by a HCPC tribunal of all wrong doing in a scathing judgement of the Trust and witnesses involved. PT contacted us in June 2020 dissatisfied with his representation to date. He had been advised to make admissions. The case...
by admin | Nov 9, 2023 | Case Study, Legal, Social work
This was a review of a substantive order of suspension imposed by Social Work England (SWE). In advance of our involvement, the social worker, M, had accepted a Suspension Order at Case Examiners stage. Following the suspension period, the Order was to be reviewed at...
by admin | Oct 19, 2023 | Legal
The case for legal advice – data and research We know, from over a combined 30 years’ experience representing doctors and other medical professionals, that legal advice and representation does make a positive difference. The difference having legal advice makes is...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Legal
Any criminal conviction will be viewed as proven in a fitness to practise case, and attempts at denial could be interpreted as lack insight. An Overview of Criminal Convictions Fitness to Practise In fitness to practise proceedings, criminal convictions (or formal...
