Welcome to the latest edition of the Professional Discipline Newsletter. Ben Rich Editor Foreword Hello and welcome to the 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Spring Newsletter. Here at 2 Hare Court we approach all our cases with optimism and a belief that we can get a good result for the client, but that cheery outlook […]
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 […]
Marios represented the interests of a registrant of the Health & Care Professions Council (‘HCPC’) accused of dishonesty. The case involved allegedly false claims to insurers over a number of years. The insurer had also referred the registrant to the police. The allegations and the HCPC investigation spanned many years. Prior to the substantive hearing […]
Oliver Glasgow KC was recently interviewed by The Times and named Lawyer of the Week. Oliver recently prosecuted Jordan McSweeney, 29, for the sexual assault and murder of Zara Aleena, a law graduate, in June this year. At the Old Bailey in London, McSweeney was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 38 years. […]
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 […]
