Professional Discipline
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We can guide you through the process, providing you with the advice needed to ensure the best possible outcome
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We are highly experienced in dealing with all levels of professionals from highest rank senior executives to more junior staff
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An Overview
Accompanying you to your Professional Discipline or Fitness to Practice Hearing
Most employees have the right to be accompanied by a lawyer at a professional discipline or fitness to practice hearing. Russell Jones & Walker solicitors can guide you through the process, providing you with the advice needed to ensure the best possible outcome. This includes preparation for the hearing itself, an analysis of the case against you, how to respond and most importantly a strategy to achieve your aim. As well as dealing with the fairness of the decision, we can where appropriate assist in negotiating termination of employment on a favourable basis, bringing an appeal or a claim for unfair dismissal or discrimination.
Matters of professional discipline or fitness to practice are extremely serious. Being summoned to a professional disciplinary or fitness to practice hearing is a highly distressing situation for a professional to face, regardless of whether or not that individual believes themselves to be responsible for the alleged misconduct, or performance issue.
At an ordinary employment disciplinary hearing there is a risk of a formal warning, sanction, or at worst dismissal. However, at a professional disciplinary or fitness to practice hearing your very future in your chosen profession can hang in the balance.
The way disciplinary and fitness to practice hearings are run varies widely from profession to profession, depending on the rules of the body regulating that profession. Professional discipline and fitness to practice hearings share a common characteristic in that they follow a highly intensive process involving a considerable amount of formal documentation and procedure. This can be extremely daunting, especially if you have not experienced such a procedure before.
Contact us today to talk about your Professional Discipline issue with one of our specialist employment solicitors
Please call 0800 916 9060 or email enquiries@rjw.co.uk. Our employment solicitors operate from offices across the country and can offer immediate and accessible representation anywhere in the UK.
