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• Application to extend an interim order following discontinuation of criminal proceedings and ‘lack of urgency’ by the GMC – a warning ! 14 August 2026
• Legal protection for title ‘nurse’ 1 August 2026
• The GMC has published its annual fitness to practise data report. 30 July 2026
• When the ‘general’ approach and ‘attitude’ of a regulator is questioned! 12 June 2026
• The application of the burden and standard of proof – a warning! 13 May 2026
• Consensual or non-consensual sexual acts, half time submissions and the dangers of not assessing all evidence! 18 March 2026
• Insight and healthcare professionals….a warning. 6 March 2026
• Suspension or strike off? And AI hallucinations…a further warning! 30 January 2026
• ‘Pink gin’ and hearsay evidence – a warning! 23 January 2026
• Fitness to practise investigations and the GMC – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 19 January 2026
• Fitness to practise investigations by the NMC, GMC, HCPC, GOC, GOsC – the value of specialist legal advice! 18 January 2026
• Fitness to Practise and making a finding of dishonesty – a warning. 2 January 2026
• Getting advice… 11 November 2025
• Application to extend an interim order -a warning to regulators? 31 July 2025
• What in a title? Physician associates (PA) and anaesthesia associates (AA) – Associates or Assistants? 16 July 2025
• Sexual misconduct allegations against a healthcare registrant: Sexual motivation, insight and risk. 10 July 2025
• Feedback for Barrister Chris Pataky 5 July 2025
• Interim orders for healthcare professionals – a warning to regulators? 1 July 2025
• Registration, the GMC, physician associates and anaesthesia associates 2 May 2025
• Easy Access Barrister – Chris Pataky 28 April 2025
• A healthcare professional facing serious allegations? Why getting specialist advice can be so important 20 April 2025
• GMC Registration Data 6 March 2025
• An Unsigned Appellant Notice – a warning to litigants in person! 28 February 2025
• The Greatest Privilege 6 September 2024
• Whatever the situation – getting specialist legal advice can be so important… 18 June 2024
• Dishonesty, violence and GMC guidance. 4 April 2024
• Sexually motivated conduct, Covid, ‘Exceptional circumstances’ and sanction… 18 December 2023
• A warning to regulators: Filling the gap – fairness, final sanctions and immediate orders. 13 December 2023
• Sexual harassment in healthcare and the GMC’s updated ‘Good Medical Practice’. 22 August 2023
• Insight, risk, reasoning and the regulator’s position on sanction 23 May 2023
• Fitness to practise, nurses and midwives under investigation and voluntary removal from the register. 24 April 2023
• Fitness to practise, the GMC and medical students. 29 March 2023
• What every healthcare professional should know! 1 March 2023
• Doctors under investigation 16 December 2022
• Nurses – further growth in numbers 30 November 2022
• Dishonesty, Remediation and Insight. 11 October 2022
• Interim Orders: ‘Solid’ Evidence, Risk and the Power of the Court to Devise Interim Conditions 5 October 2022
• Whistleblowing – NMC, HCPC, GDC, GOC, GPhC, GOsC and GCC 28 September 2022
• General Medical Council, Interim Orders and the Public Interest 24 August 2022
• New duties on doctors – the GMC issue revised draft guidance – updated “Good Medical Practice” 27 April 2022
• Sexual misconduct, risk assessment and an application to terminate the General Medical Council interim order 13 April 2022
• Urgent Legal Defence for Healthcare Professionals Under Investigation: 5 things every healthcare practitioner under investigation should know! 1 April 2022
• Urgent Legal Representation for Nurses: 5 things every nurse under investigation by the NMC should know! 1 April 2022
• Falling at the first hurdle: Interim orders, extensions and the correct test 10 March 2022
• GMC publishes report on deaths during investigations 5 March 2022
• Sexual misconduct and suspension orders: proportionality, whether to review and the impact of an interim order? 4 March 2022
• Application to extend an interim order – another warning from the Administrative Court? 12 January 2022
• Chris Pataky is made head of professional regulation at Clerksroom Chambers! 11 January 2022
• No such thing as a ‘hybrid approach’ 17 December 2021
• Dishonesty, ‘minor niggling fouls’ and insight! 6 December 2021
• Erasure, suspension and the public interest 27 July 2021
• Dishonesty and the duty to disclose even if outside of the form’s ‘indicative bullseye! 25 May 2021
• Injunctions, Trust disciplinary proceedings and investigations by the regulator! 24 May 2021
• Sexually motivated conduct and ‘common sense’! 20 May 2021
• GMC – new targets to ‘eradicate disadvantage’ 18 May 2021
• Defer or not defer! 30 April 2021
• Dishonesty and Denial! 20 April 2021
• Dishonesty and violence – the GMC changes it’s guidance for decision makers! 4 April 2021
• Dishonesty, expert evidence and conflicts of interest! 31 March 2021
• Denial, impairment and sanction? 24 March 2021
• Dare to publish? 23 December 2020
• When all is not as it seems! 15 December 2020
• Application to extend an interim order: Another warning from the Administrative Court? 30 November 2020
• ‘Sexually motivated’ conduct or ‘sexual’ conduct? 22 September 2020
• The threshold for regulatory intervention: when should it ‘bite’? 18 September 2020
• A nine month suspension order with a review could not be said to be wrong. 11 August 2020
• Another powerful message from the Administrative Court. 22 July 2020
• Is this a warning to regulators? 1 July 2020
• GMC v Awan [2020] EWHC 1553 (Admin) (17 June) 17 June 2020
• Naqvi and SRA [2020] EWHC 1394 (Admin) 1394 2 June 2020