by admin | Mar 1, 2024 | Case, Fitness to Practise, GOsC, News
My client, RP, was a returning client who faced regulatory allegations of competence and integrity. From an early stage, we, Kings View Chambers, could see a way of having the matter stopped by the Case Examiners. This required RP agreeing to a very limited initial...
by admin | Jan 7, 2024 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Key points Regulator’s guidance must not be “slavishly” followed and that regulatory decisions must be made based on the individual merits of the case and taking into account all the relevant matters. Taking into account all the relevant matters and information, the...
by admin | Nov 26, 2023 | Fitness to Practise, HCPC, News
My client, a Radiographer, has been cleared by a HCPC tribunal of all wrong doing in a scathing judgement of the Trust and witnesses involved. PT contacted us in June 2020 dissatisfied with his representation to date. He had been advised to make admissions. The case...
by admin | Nov 1, 2023 | Fitness to Practise, GMC, News
Our client, Dr MK, approached Kings View Chambers very close to the original fitness to practise listing in a matter which was, at that stage, almost inevitably going to lead to erasure by the MPTS. We intervened and secured a postponement of the hearing in order to...
by admin | Jun 11, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
What is Fit to Practise? Generally speaking, a health and care professional is fit to practise if they have the training, skills, knowledge, character and health to do their job safely and effectively. Where a regulator has concerns about a health and care...
by admin | May 15, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
In this case, the High Court refused an application to extend the time for an appeal, restating the correct legal analysis. Dr Gyorgy Rakoczy The case before Justice Fordham relates to a decision of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (“MPT”) on 27 April 2021, that Dr...