Welcome to the latest edition of the Professional Discipline Newsletter. Christopher Geering & Ben Rich Editors Foreword Hello and welcome to a bumper Winter/Christmas edition of the 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Newsletter. This edition starts with an issue that might seem a little obscure. We live in an era of remote hearings, so […]
Welcome to the latest edition of the Professional Discipline Newsletter. Christopher Geering Editor Foreword Welcome to the new 2 Hare Court newsletter. Ben Rich looks at Freeman v GMC and considers what is the impact of a witness storming out of proceedings during cross-examination? Alexandra Tampakopoulos returns to the vexed issue of demeanour in sexual assault […]
The Court of Appeal is clearly frustrated. As it observed, “An inquest remains an inquisitorial and relatively summary process. It is not a surrogate public inquiry. The range of coroners’ cases that have come before the High Court and Court of Appeal in recent years indicate that those features are being lost in some instances […]
Welcome to the latest edition of the Professional Discipline Newsletter. Christopher Geering Editor Foreword Welcome to the Autumn 2 Hare Court Newsletter. Many of us have wondered why it is a regulator like CMA or the SRA run a much lower risk of a costs order if they lose a case. The Supreme Court considered […]
Welcome to the latest edition of the Professional Discipline Newsletter. Christopher Geering Editor Foreword Welcome to another 2 Hare Court newsletter. Two recent SRA decisions deserve some attention. Ben Rich considers Maxfield Martin where the court overruled the SDT’s application of the principles set out in Ivey. Lewis MacDonald analyses Gray, and the use of […]
