professional conduct – Page 60 – Current Awareness

LSB issues warning notice to Bar Standards Board – Legal Services Board

Posted January 23rd, 2012 in barristers, news, professional conduct by sally

“Schedule 4 to the Legal Services Act 2007 (‘the Act’) provides that Approved Regulators must obtain approval from the Legal Services Board (LSB) to alter any of their Regulatory Arrangements. The LSB has issued a notice, referred to as a “warning notice” under Paragraph 21(1)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Act, in respect of the BSB’s application to alter its regulatory arrangements concerning aspects of the Cab Rank Rule. The notice has been given because the LSB is considering whether to refuse the application. The LSB may now invite advice from other parties and has a period of up to 18 months from Friday 20 January 2011 to reach a decision.”

Legal Services Board, 23rd January 2012

Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk

ACS:Law solicitor at centre of internet piracy row suspended – The Guardian

Posted January 18th, 2012 in data protection, disciplinary procedures, internet, news, professional conduct, solicitors by sally

“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

Veterinary tribunal did not show bias – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted January 18th, 2012 in bias, news, professional conduct, tribunals by sally

“The disciplinary procedures of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons did not give rise to any appearance of bias so as to breach a practitioner’s right to a fair trial under Article 6.”

UK Human Rights Blog, 18th January 2012

Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com

Code review report – Bar Standards Board

Posted January 16th, 2012 in barristers, consultations, news, professional conduct by sally

“The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published an analysis of responses to the Review of the Code of Conduct consultation, which is now available to view and download.”

Bar Standards Board, 11th January 2012

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

Judge publicly reprimanded over driving ban – The Guardian

Posted January 16th, 2012 in judges, news, professional conduct, road traffic offences by sally

“One of Britain’s most senior appeal court judges has been publicly reprimanded for receiving a driving ban and failing to inform judicial authorities that he was facing traffic offences.”

The Guardian, 13th January 2012

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Poor teachers ‘will slip through the net’ under reforms – Daily Telegraph

Posted January 6th, 2012 in disciplinary procedures, news, professional conduct, teachers by tracey

“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

PC Hannah Quince guilty of illicit police computer search – BBC News

Posted December 14th, 2011 in abuse of position of trust, computer crime, news, police, professional conduct by sally

“A policewoman who searched the force computer to look through confidential files on behalf of her boyfriend has been found guilty of misconduct.”

BBC News, 13th December 2011

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Bar Standards Board seeks to make it easier for members of the public to instruct barristers directly – Bar Standards Board

Posted December 2nd, 2011 in barristers, press releases, professional conduct by tracey

“The Bar Standards Board (BSB), the regulatory body for barristers in England and Wales, is consulting on amendments to its Code of Conduct for barristers following a review of its public access rules.”

Full press release

Bar Standards Board, 1st December 2011

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

In re an application by the General Dental Council (Savery and others, interested parties) – WLR Daily

Posted November 18th, 2011 in dentists, disclosure, law reports, medical records, professional conduct by tracey

In re an application by the General Dental Council (Savery and others, interested parties):[2011] EWHC 3011 (Admin); [2011] WLR (D) 332

“The General Dental Council was under no obligation to obtain an order of the court for permission to use and disclose dental records of patients for the purposes of investigating allegations of professional misconduct against a registered dentist even where the patients in question objected to the disclosure or did not consent to it.”

WLR Daily, 16th November 2011

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

New House of Commons code of conduct could be extended to MPs’ private lives – Daily Telegraph

Posted November 9th, 2011 in news, parliament, professional conduct by tracey

“MPs could be punished for indiscretions in their private lives if their actions embarrass Parliament, under a new code of conduct.”

Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2011

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Bar Chairman Promotes Value of an Independent Judiciary – The Bar Council

Posted November 2nd, 2011 in judiciary, legal services, press releases, professional conduct by tracey

“The Chairman of the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has told Bar leaders from around the world that an independent judiciary is the most important element in attracting clients to any jurisdiction.”

Full press release

The Bar Council, 2nd November 2011

Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk

New requirements for first tier complaints handling – Bar Standards Board

Posted October 28th, 2011 in barristers, complaints, press releases, professional conduct by tracey

“Following extensive consultation with the Bar, practice managers and senior clerks, we are now in a position to release the final requirements for Chambers in relation to first tier complaints handling. These arrangements have been approved by the Legal Services Board. The requirements place an obligation on Chambers and barristers to ensure that the lay client is aware of their right to complain to Chambers and to the Legal Ombudsman.”

Bar Standards Board, 25th October 2011

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

Professional Conduct Department: Diversity Report 2009/10 – Bar Standards Board

Posted September 30th, 2011 in barristers, complaints, diversity, news, professional conduct by tracey

“We have analysed the gender, ethnicity and disability profiles of barristers who were the subject of complaints in 2009 and 2010; and, in relation to external complaints, the complainants who submitted the complaints. We monitor diversity in our complaints handling and disciplinary system to ensure that we conduct our regulatory activities fairly and in accordance with our duty to promote equality and eliminate discrimination.”

Bar Standards Board, 30th September 2011

Source: www.barstandsboard.org.uk

Phone-hacking inquiry judge is right to investigate behaviour of the media’s ‘good guys’ – The Guardian

Posted September 21st, 2011 in freedom of expression, human rights, interception, judges, media, news, privacy, professional conduct, public interest by michael

“What is Lord Justice Leveson up to? The judge heading the phone-hacking inquiry is currently planning a series of public seminars on the relationship between the press and the public. Is he right to seek evidence about internal rules in such august institutions as the Guardian and the BBC? Or should he confine himself, as some critics are saying, to investigating the misbehaviour of the tabloid press and the police?”

The Guardian, 21st September 2011

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Teacher banned for letting pupils hug him – Daily Telegraph

Posted September 19th, 2011 in disciplinary procedures, news, professional conduct, teachers by tracey

“A primary schoolteacher has been banned from working for allowing children to hug him.”

Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2011

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Misconduct not proven for Fiona Pilkington officers – BBC News

Posted September 16th, 2011 in complaints, harassment, news, police, professional conduct by tracey

“Four Leicestershire police officers have been cleared of misconduct after a woman killed herself and her daughter blaming repeated harassment.”

BBC News, 16th September 2011

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Teacher banned from classroom after ‘biting a police officer’ conviction emerges – Daily Telegraph

Posted September 9th, 2011 in criminal records, disciplinary procedures, news, professional conduct, teachers by tracey

“A teacher has been banned from the classroom after hiding a string of convictions – including biting a police officer.”

Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2011

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Review into West Yorkshire Police murder case corruption – BBC News

Posted September 8th, 2011 in complaints, corruption, inquiries, news, perverting the course of justice, police, professional conduct by sally

“An urgent review has been ordered into the conduct of police in West Yorkshire who took a murder trial witness to a brothel and allowed him to take drugs.”

BBC News, 8th September 2011

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Forced repatriation staff ‘racist and unprofessional’ – The Guardian

Posted September 6th, 2011 in death in custody, deportation, immigration, news, professional conduct, racism, reports, restraint by sally

“Private security officers employed to remove detainees from the UK showed ‘a shamefully unprofessional and derogatory attitude’, using unnecessary force and racist language, according to the chief inspector of prisons.”

The Guardian, 6th September 2011

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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