UPDATE ON EXPERT EVIDENCE – SEPTEMBER 2019 The Crown Prosecution Service have updated the ACPO Guidance and Part 19 of the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 have updated in September 2019 The original Guidance Booklet for Experts was published by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Association of Chief Police Officers in May 2010 (‘the ACPO […]
Sexual misconduct: it’s worse if you’re a nurse In 2009 the Professional Standards Authority published guidance for patients and professionals with the aim of helping them to avoid becoming a victim or perpetrator of sexual misconduct. Regrettably instances of sexual misconduct have continued and the PSA therefore, commissioned Professor Rosalind Searle, a chartered psychologist at […]
On 1st October 2019 the new ‘Notification of Deaths Regulations 2019’ came into force. Long anticipated, these guidelines set out a roadmap for when the medical profession will be under a duty to notify a senior coroner of a death. A new set of written obligations with the force of law behind them may initially […]
In the recent case of R (Ngole) v University of Sheffield [2019] EWCA Civ 1127 the Court of Appeal considered the appropriateness of dismissing a student social worker for a series of religiously motivated posts on Facebook. Mr Ngole responded to a story online about Kim Davis, the American registrar who refused to issue same […]
In 2018 the GMC commissioned an independent review following the death of Jack Adcock and subsequent prosecution and conviction of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba for Gross Negligence Manslaughter. The review working group has now published its report, which can be read in full here. The proceedings that followed Dr Bawa-Garba’s conviction, as GMC CEO Charlie Massey […]