Professional Discipline & Regulatory
Jamie accepts instructions to represent healthcare professionals facing regulatory proceedings.
In 2021, Jamie represented a Consultant in GMC fitness to practice proceedings, charged with dishonesty and facing possible erasure. Jamie’s defence was successful at Stage 1, with the relevant facts found unproven, and his client’s reputation and livelihood remain wholly intact.
Through his work in clinical negligence, Jamie is familiar with the full range of medical professions and complex expert evidence on all manner of clinical issues. He has particular expertise in advising clients facing regulatory proceedings likely to arise from or coincide with Coroner’s investigations.
Jamie also has experience of disciplinary proceedings brought by charted bodies, such as representing a health and safety professional at proceedings brought by the Institution for Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). He also has added insight into the defence of regulatory proceedings from experience as a prosecutor for the Bar Standards Board.
Healthcare Regulatory
Jamie accepts instructions to advise healthcare providers in all regulatory matters, with particular experience of proceedings in the First-Tier Tribunal concerning CQC cancellation of care home registrations.