A UK-based solicitor blogging about defending professionals and regulatory law, mainly in the healthcare sector
The second of the world’s leading legal directories, Chambers, has just published its 2027 edition and I’m delighted to have been ranked for Professional Discipline: UK-Wide. The comments gathered from anonymous interviewees appear below. Sincere…
The Legal 500 is “The clients’ guide to the world’s leading lawyers” and it feels a bit like school report day when it’s published each year. Not going to lie, I’m delighted to be ranked…
The General Medical Council, or GMC, is the regulatory body for doctors in the UK (and, in 2024, became the regulatory body for medical associate professions too). The GMC’s purpose, as set out in the…
I was recently invited onto the Confidence To Thrive podcast to discuss whether doctors working in functional medicine should maintain their GMC registration and licence to practise. You can hear my thoughts here or wherever…
The Professional Standards Authority has published its 2025/26 annual performance review of The Health and Care Professions Council today. The HCPC met just three out of five fitness to practise standards, with the PSA noting…
I’ve previously written about the frequency with which false information generated by AI has started to give rise to professional discipline proceedings (and there is a new, horrorshow judgment just out – see Cork &…
For years, I’ve had a niche practice advising clients (usually private medical clinics and pharmacies) in relation to advertising of medicines and medicinal products. This skillset used to get pulled out of the bag about…
Yesterday, I spoke at the Pharmacy Law & Ethics Association’s annual seminar. My topic was fitness to practise-related legal highlights of 2025/26 and I picked the following from a long shortlist: ~ Suresh v General…
The GPhC has taken the rare step of writing to all pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy owners to warn of “some emerging issues which have led to concerns being raised“. Unfortunately, the team and I…
A longstanding client, Medical Defense Society, recently asked me to write a blog regarding one of their members successfully defended before the GMC and that blog is reproduced below. On instructions from the…
