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Seasons greetings from PRG
From all of us in the Public and Regulatory Group, we would like to wish our clients and blog readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to working with you in 2014.If you
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Judicial Review Costs Update
The Administrative Court has issued guidance on how it will approach the question of costs following settlement of claims for judicial review without a substantive hearing. The guidance will apply to
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The Professionals
In the second of our posts on the Stevens commission, we look at the proposal that police officers become a registered, chartered profession. The commission identifies a number of failings with police
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Bonfire of the PCCs?
A commission into the future of policing, set up by the Labour party and chaired by former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens, has made a number of eye catching recommendations in its
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McCarthy v Visitors to the Inns of Court and Bar Standards Board [2013] EWHC 3253 (Admin) - in what circumstances should a regulator disclose a draft witness statement?
Many regulators will be familiar with the requirement in regulatory proceedings to disclose any material which either undermines the case for the prosecuting regulator or assists the case for the
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St. Clair Gainer v Bar Standards Board [2013] ALL ER (D) 140
The Appellant barrister appealed to the Visitors to the Inns of Court ("the Visitors") against the decision of the BSB's Disciplinary Tribunal ("the Tribunal") to suspend him from practice.The
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Gatawa v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2013] QBD [Admin]
All ER (D) 259 (Oct)The appellant nurse (G) appealed against a decision by the Conduct and Competence Committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Council which had found G guilty of professional misconduct
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Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013
The Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013 received Royal Assent on 10 September 2013. It introduces a "soft opt-out" system for organ donation in Wales, and is expected to come into force in
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The SRA and BSB respond to the Legal Education and Training Review
The Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) published its final report in June 2013. The Review was commissioned by the Bar Standards Board (BSB), ILEX Professional Standards (IPS) and the
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R (Leathley, Mehey and Hayes) v Visitors to the Inns of Court (and Bar Standards Board, as an Interested Party) [2013] EWHC 3097 (Admin)
The claimants were barristers who, in separate cases, had been found to have breached the Bar Standards Board's ("BSB") Code of Conduct by the BSB's Disciplinary Tribunal ("the Tribunal").The