“An armed diplomatic security officer who abandoned his duties for extra-marital sex has been sentenced to nine months in prison.”
The Independent, 18th March 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Foreign doctors wanting to treat NHS patients in England will have to prove they have the necessary English skills, the government has confirmed.”
BBC News, 24th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An intimate sexual relationship instigated by an undercover police officer with a member of the public for the purposes of obtaining information fell within the scope of ‘personal or other relationship with a person’ for the purposes of section 26(8) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 so that, by section 65, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal had exclusive jurisdiction to hear a claim brought against the police under the Human Rights Act 1998.”
WLR Daily, 18th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has published a landmark document setting out professional standards for cosmetic practice, addressing the widespread lack of regulation of all aspects of the industry.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 29th January 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been fined £390m ($610m) by UK and US authorities for its part in the Libor rate-fixing scandal.”
BBC News, 6th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Doctors will be able to provide medical records to patients who want them to
travel abroad for an assisted suicide without being struck off, new guidelines
make clear for the first time.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“For months, the Leveson Inquiry dominated the news, as a succession of high-profile witnesses gave evidence – actors Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller, singer Charlotte Church; the parents of Milly Dowler and Madeleine McCann; editors, proprietors, police chiefs, politicians.”
BBC News, 27th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The true scale of the problem posed by ‘lawless bailiffs’ is revealed as shocking figures show a sharp rise in complaints about their behaviour since the start of the banking crisis.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Bailiffs will be regulated under new laws to ‘clean up’ the industry and protect vulnerable debtors, the Government has announced.”
The Independent, 25th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two forces will publish details about officers who have been sacked or who have resigned while facing disciplinary proceedings in the first move of its kind in Britain.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient when she was in a trance-like state.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A senior mental health nurse who performed Nazi salutes in front of patients has been struck off.”
BBC News, 19th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police officers have been warned that the ‘very legitimacy’ of the service risks being undermined unless more is done to take issues of integrity more seriously, a watchdog says.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Police have thanked the women who came forward to help convict a GP who has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting patients.”
The Independent, 18th December 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former British army doctor has been found guilty of serious misconduct by medical watchdogs over the death of Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa and will now face possible sanctions against his working as a medic.”
The Guardian, 18th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It was left to a medical body to censure Derek Keilloh. That no one else has been brought to book over the killing is shameful”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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