Assisted suicide cases guidelines issued by GMC – BBC News
“The General Medical Council is launching its first ever guidelines on assisted suicide.”
BBC News, 6th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: disciplinary procedures
Banker banned from City for obtaining £1.4m dishonestly to cover debts – The Guardian
“One of the most senior figures in the banking industry, Ravi Sinha, who once fronted a bid for Northern Rock, has been banned from working in the City and fined £2.9m by the Financial Services Authority after dishonestly obtaining millions of pounds to cover his debts.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Psychiatric nurse struck off after forcing himself on pregnant patient – Daily Telegraph
“Jonathan Henk, a psychiatric nurse who forced himself on a patient he was secretly dating after discovering she was pregnant by another man, has been struck off.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
ACS:Law solicitor at centre of internet piracy row suspended – The Guardian
“The London-based lawyer at the centre of a long-running row over internet piracy has been suspended for two years and ordered to pay £76,000 in costs.”
The Guardian, 18th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Football Association defends disciplinary system – BBC News
“The Football Association has defended its near perfect record in disciplinary cases last year involving clubs, players or managers. Its Independent Regulatory Commission heard 473 cases between December 2010 and December 2011, but only two of them ended in ‘not guilty’ verdicts.”
BBC News, 7th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Poor teachers ‘will slip through the net’ under reforms – Daily Telegraph
“Hundreds of poor teachers are likely to be allowed to remain in the classroom under Government plans to scrap the profession’s official regulator, it is feared.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Joey Barton’s appeal against red card rejected by Football Association – The Guardian
“Joey Barton’s appeal against his red card for violent conduct in QPR’s match against Norwich City has been dismissed by the Football Association.”
The Guardian, 4th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Met Police corruption: Officers allowed to resign – BBC News
“More than 130 Metropolitan Police (Met) officers were allowed to resign rather than facing misconducts panels over the last year, figures have shown.”
BBC News, 2nd January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Assisted suicide: GMC to publish guidance – BBC News
“Guidance on how to deal with complaints against doctors who may have assisted in suicides will be published by the General Medical Council.”
BBC News, 16th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Revenue suspends its inquiry into tax office whistleblower – The Guardian
“Officials at Revenue and Customs are reconsidering disciplinary procedures against a whistleblower whose information has led to two inquiries into allegations that City corporations were let off billions of pounds in tax penalties. A Whitehall source said tax officials had suspended a ‘fact-finding’ investigation into Osita Mba, a tax solicitor, in the wake of criticism from MPs and the public.”
The Guardian, 15th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Goldman Sachs whistleblower threatened with the sack – The Guardian
“A solicitor at HM Revenue & Customs who turned whistleblower to disclose that senior managers had quietly let off Goldman Sachs from paying millions of pounds in tax penalties is facing disciplinary procedures and possible prosecution for speaking out.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Police officer cleared of custody assault wins his job back – The Guardian
“A police officer who was sacked after being jailed for throwing a woman onto the concrete floor of a cell has won his job back.”
The Guardian, 2nd December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Garland) v Secretary of State for Justice and another – WLR Daily
“Under rule 53(1) of the Prison Rules 1999 prison authorities were allowed a full 48 hours from discovery of an offence against discipline to lay a charge against a prisoner, and longer where there were exceptional circumstances making it impossible to lay the charge within that time.”
WLR Daily, 17th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Mike Tindall removed from England elite squad and fined by RFU – BBC News
“Mike Tindall has been fined £25,000 by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and removed from England’s elite player squad for his World Cup conduct.”
BBC News, 11th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Met Police chief inspector sacked over sex and drugs boast – BBC News
“A Metropolitan Police chief inspector has been sacked after boasting on a dating website of committing a sexual offence and taking drugs.”
BBC News, 10th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Doctor who carried out string of botched operations resumes work at NHS hospital – Daily Telegraph
“Although the General Medical Council recommended that Gideon Lauffer be permanently struck off, a fitness to practice panel suspended him for six months following the deaths of two patients. The suspension has now expired and the former consultant has taken up a post in the A&E department at St Thomas’s hospital in London, it has been disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Northampton nurse David Ajayi struck off over groping – BBC News
“A ‘predatory and controlling’ nurse found to have groped patients and a carer has been ordered to be struck off by a disciplinary panel.”
BBC News, 28th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Former ILEX student successfully quashes cheating claims – The Lawyer
“The Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of an Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) disciplinary hearing, ruling that the body’s disciplinary process was not independent enough to serve its purpose.”
The Lawyer, 20th October 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Regina (Kaur) v Institute of Legal Executives Appeal Tribunal and another – WLR Daily
“Judges should not sit or should face recusal or disqualification where there was a real possibility on the objective appearances of things, assessed by the fair-minded and informed observer, that the tribunal could be biased. The vice-president of the Institute of Legal Executives (‘ILEX’) ought not to have been a member of a disciplinary appeal tribunal set up by the institute to deal with breaches of its rules. Her leading role in the institute and her inevitable interest in its policy of disciplinary regulation should have disqualified her because the fair-minded and informed observer ought to have or would have concluded that there was a real possibility of bias.”
WLR Daily, 19th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
