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The relevance (or otherwise) of the Equality Act 2010 – General Medical Council v Shah [2025] EWHC 899 (Admin)

Stephen Brassington recently represented Dr Shah (with some assistance from myself) in the High Court…

The assessment of credibility and sufficiency of reasons: an appeal on the facts: Hindle v NMC [2025] EWHC 373 (Admin)

For most of its history, the common law legal system has regarded live answers from…

PSA v GMC and Anor [2025] EWHC 318 (Admin) – the consequences of admitting evidence through the wrong gateway

In this case, the Registrant had examined two female patients who were unknown to each…

Adebayo v NMC [ 2025] EWHC 315(Admin) – the relevance of criminal sentences in regulatory proceedings

Mr Adebayo was a nurse who, whilst working at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation…

Demanya v The General Medical Council [2025] EWHC 247 (Admin)

The Tribunal found that Dr Demanya had failed to diagnose sepsis in a 75-year-old woman…

The importance of particularisation – EQ v DBS [2025] UKUT 038 (AAC)

Regulators – for all their faults – appreciate the need to particularise allegations adequately. The…

Functus officio? The unresolved question of the Home Secretary’s power to withdraw or amend extradition orders: Lloyd [2025]

For those few interested in the procedural niceties surrounding extradition orders made by the Secretary…

El-Khouri [2025]: Extradition Offences and the Rule of Double Criminality

Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court (“UKSC”) handed down its judgment in El-Khouri v Government of…

Chair of the MPTS’ consultation on decision making and sanction banding: A sensible proposal

HHJ Deborah Taylor was a familiar face in the criminal courts where in recent years…

Chair of the MPTS’ consultation on decision making and sanction banding: A methodology ill-suited to healthcare regulation

There is much to be commended in the thinking behind the draft guidelines, in particular…

Reeves v SRA – Lifting of indefinite suspensions before the SDT

In this recent case, in which I acted for the applicant, the SDT lifted an…

The Regulators have now decided

As regular readers of this newsletter may recollect, exactly 12 months ago Ben Rich and…

Dishonesty and exceptional circumstances

Over the last decade or so there has been an increasing recognition by healthcare professional…

GMC v Dugboyele [2024] EWHC 2651 (Admin)

In GMC v Dugboyele, Murray J overturned a decision by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (“the…

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