Hamer's Professional Conduct Casebook

Kenneth Hamer is an experienced barrister and former Recorder of the Crown Court. He sits as a legally qualified chair at the General Medical Council (Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service) and is a legal adviser/legal assessor to the General Dental Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. He regularly represents regulators and practitioners in a wide range of professional conduct cases, as well as advising and lecturing on fitness to practise processes. He is a council member of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting and the joint editor of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers' Quarterly Bulletin.

Kenneth Hamer has, heroically, managed to assemble into one volume the most important decisions in a disparate field. The reader of this casebook will find cases involving doctors and other medical professionals, teachers, lawyers, financiers, sportsmen, social workers and others.

• 1: Absence of Practitioner 2: Abuse of Process 3: Adjournment 4: Amendment 5: Appeals 6: Appeals by the Regulator 7: Bad Character 8: Bias 9: Burden of Proof 10: Case Management 11: Civil Restraint Orders 12: Concurrent Proceedings 13: Conditions of Practice Orders 14: Consensual Disposal 15: Constitution of Panel 16: Contractual and Statutory Regulation 17: Conviction and Caution Cases (General Principles) 18: Conviction and Caution Cases (Sanction) 19: Costs 20: Deficient Professional Performance 21: Delay 22: Disclosure, Confidentiality, Data Protection, and Freedom of Information 23: Dishonesty (General Principles) 24: Dishonesty (Sanction) 25: Double Jeopardy 26: Drafting of Charges 27: Erasure 28: Estoppel 29: Evidence 30: Experts 31: Findings of Fact 32: Fines 33: Galbraith Summons 34: Good Character 35: Health (Adverse Physical or Mental Health) 36: Human Rights 37: Impairment of Fitness to Practise 38: In Camera Discussions 39: Independent and Impartial Tribunal 40: Indicative Sanctions Guidance 41: Insight and Remediation 42: Integrity (Lack of) 43: Interim Orders (General Principles) 44: Interim Orders (Extension of) 45: Investigation of Allegations 46: Joinder 47: Judicial Conduct 48: Judicial Immunity 49: Judicial Review 50: Jurisdiction 51: Language (Knowledge of English) 52: Legal Advice 53: Legal or Other Representation 54: Legitimate Expectation 55: Lies 56: Medical Advisers 57: Misconduct (General Principles) 58: Misconduct (Specific Misconduct) 59: Natural Justice 60: Negligence 61: No Case to Answer 62: Non-Compliance 63: Notification Requirements 64: Oral Hearing 65: Privilege 66: Proportionality 67: Public or Private Hearing 68: Publication and Anonymity 69: Reasons 70: Recklessness 71: Registration 72: Re-opening and Review of Decisions 73: Reprimand 74: Restoration to the Register 75: Review Hearings 76: Sanction (General Principles) 77: Sanction (Specific Cases) 78: Service 79: Standard of Proof 80: Stay Proceedings 81: Striking Off 82: Suspension 83: Undertakings 84: Unrepresented Practitioner 85: Voluntary Erasure 86: Waiver 87: Warnings 88: Whistleblowing 89: Witnesses 90: Words and Phrases 91: Supplementary Cases (2023) Index