Our team of expert regulatory and professional discipline/fitness to practice solicitors and in-house barristers specialise in defending a range of professionals against investigations, disciplinary committees and tribunals conducted by a variety of regulatory bodies.
We operate a 24 hour initial telephone advice service for all professionals who require emergency assistance. For advice call us on 0845 00 20736, alternatively please submit our online enquiry form and a member of the professional discipline team will contact you.
Our specialist professional defence lawyers have vast experience in advising professionals in relation to fitness to practice panel hearings, interim orders panel hearings and issues such as professional repute, professional competence and professional misconduct. We advise from the outset of an investigation, throughout any interview process and our in-house solicitor advocates and barristers will represent those professionals called to appear before disciplinary tribunals and disciplinary committees when regulatory action is being considered.
Our professional discipline solicitors also have experience of appeals against decisions made by professional disciplinary tribunals and committees before the Court of Appeal, High Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
We have an established record of defending various health care professionals. There are 13 organisations in the UK known as health and social care regulators that regulate individual health professionals:
- The General Chiropractic Council (GCC)
- The General Dental Council (GDC)
- The General Medical Council (GMC)
- The General Optical Council (GOC)
- The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC)
- The General Social Care Council (GSCC)
- The Health Professions Council (HPC)
Regulates: Arts therapists, Biomedical Scientists, Chiropodists/ Podiatrists, Clinical Scientists, Dieticians, Occupational Therapists, Operating Department Practitioners, Orthoptists, Paramedics, Physiotherapists, Prosthetists and Orthotists, Radiographers, Speech and Language Therapists - The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI)
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC)
- Care Council for Wales (CCW)
- Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)
- Sports tribunals
- Health food industry regulation
- Financial Services Ombudsman
- Teachers’ disciplinary hearings
- Professional drivers
- Solicitors’ disciplinary hearings
