“The Metropolitan police attempted to keep the disciplinary record of PC Simon Harwood secret from the family of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller he struck with a baton and pushed to the ground at G20 protests, it can now be reported.”
The Guardian, 20th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“PC Simon Harwood has a disciplinary record littered with complaints of aggressive behaviour and misconduct and once admitted being sent into ‘red mist mode’, it can be disclosed today.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than 75 judges were disciplined for misconduct last year, official figures show, with some banned after being jailed for crimes as serious as blackmail and manslaughter.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Failings ‘at every level’ of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) mean it is letting down patients in its prime duty to protect them, says a report.”
BBC News, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An employment judge has become the first to be publicly censured under new rules that will see all judges and magistrates who are disciplined for misconduct have their cases publicised by the Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC).”
The Lawyer, 11th June 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The decision of the Supreme Court in Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust & Botham v Minister of Defence [2011] UKSC 58 [2012] ICR 201 (‘Edwards’) represents the latest word from our highest domestic court as to the availability of damages for losses arising following the termination of employment. As has been usual of late, the Justices of the Supreme Court have spoken with several voices. However, the overall effect of the majority decision is to reaffirm and extend the orthodoxy represented by Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2001] ICR 480 (‘Johnson’), notwithstanding that this leads to a number of anomalies, from both the doctrinal and the practical points of view.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 1st June 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“An NHS trust has paid out £651,000 to 15 former patients of a Kent surgeon, it has been revealed.”
BBC News, 28th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The FSA’s Approved Persons Regime and the Disciplinary and Dismissal Flashpoints (PDF)
11 KBW, 22nd May 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“A Hungarian surgeon with a limited command of English was allowed to continue practising for three years after mistakenly injecting carbolic acid into a small child with ‘potentially fatal’ consequences.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The disciplinary proceedings of a public employer as to the dismissal of an employee under a contract of employment did not determine a “civil right” of the employee for the purposes of the right to a fair hearing pursuant to article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 18th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A hospital doctor who took handfuls of pain killers and injected himself with drugs before work each morning was rightly struck off for his ‘blatant disregard for patient safety’, the High Court has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The body that regulates nurses and midwives in the UK is failing to carry out its duties due to institutional weakness, an interim review says.”
BBC News, 10th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has ruled that a legal disciplinary body should have struck off a solicitor that had been found to have acted dishonestly.”
Legal Week, 5th April 2012
Source: www.legalweek.com
“A former deputy head has been banned from state schools after stealing £13,000 from an after-school club.”
BBC News, 29th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor who failed to tell his police and NHS employers about a manslaughter conviction acted dishonestly, a watchdog has found.”
BBC News, 30th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Military commanders have disciplined a further four British soldiers accused of killing or wounding Afghan civilians. The disclosures come at a time of heightened tension after a series of incidents involving foreign troops, and the killing on Monday of two British soldiers by a member of the Afghan security forces. The Guardian has learned that a British soldier was given an unspecified punishment after an Afghan was fatally shot in the neck while praying in a field. In other cases, a soldier punched and knocked out an Afghan, and another fired a flare into an Afghan’s face.”
The Guardian, 30th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“For the purposes of article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights there was no civil right derived from domestic and common law to associate with fellow prisoners, so that an administrative decision to segregate or continue segregation of a prisoner was not a determination of such a right.”
WLR Daily, 27th Mach 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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