Welcome to the Professional Discipline Group Newsletter – May edition Covid 19 deaths in the workplace: Chief Coroner’s guidance No 37 Alexandra Tampakopoulos Causation and other issues: Queen on the application of Smith v Assistant Coroner for North West Wales Nikita McNeill Expert Liar? McLennan v GMC Christopher Geering The perils […]
Welcome to the first 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline newsletter of 2020! Paul Renteurs looks at the unsual case of Bramhall and considers whether a warning given for misconduct can be properly set aside, and a case referred for a full hearing, when the same conduct subsequently results in a conviction. Vivienne Tanchel examines the […]
The High Court has again highlighted the issue of undercharging. Mr Wood was a paramedic called to attend Patient A, a highly vulnerable patient who suffered from a split personality disorder. Within 10-15 minutes of leaving the patient, Mr Wood began to text her. Over the course of the following month he continued to contact […]
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 […]
Ms Beard saw Patient A over the course of two appointments. Shortly afterwards Patient A sent a written complaint to Ms Beard. As the court commented, “it is difficult to convey its tone; it was inappropriately long, opinionated, personal, over-familiar, with a false bonhomie covering an underlying aggression.” Ms Beard, in her reply, described it as “verging on […]