What our Professional Discipline & Regulation team can do for you

Our specialist Professional Discipline & Regulation team can provide the support and advice you need.

Our service focuses on:

• Individualised advice, tailored to your specific situation and based on our in-depth understanding of the regulatory environment
• Support and guidance through the regulatory process
• Ability to respond urgently and meet regulatory deadlines
• Advice that is pro-active, pragmatic, and always focussed on your best professional and personal interests

Referral of a complaint to a regulatory body will set in train a series of linked steps which may impact on your right to practise. Important decisions with long term consequences for your practice need to be made at every stage.

Whether the complaint relates to “impairment of fitness to practise”, professional misconduct, capability/professional performance, or criminal conviction, we can guide you through the complexities of the process from beginning to end, including:

• Preparation of your initial response to your regulator’s notification of the complaint
• Advising and representing you in urgent interim order proceedings
• Responding to the findings of the regulator’s investigation and assisting you in preparing the appropriate response
• Preparing for a substantive disciplinary hearing
• Considering and advising you on any appropriate challenges throughout the regulatory proceedings
• Liaising with your regulatory body on your behalf throughout the disciplinary process
• Providing you throughout with forward-looking, strategic advice

What our Professional Discipline & Regulation solicitors have done for others

We have advised both regulated individuals and regulatory bodies across the sectors, including in medicine, the many healthcare-related professions, social care, teaching, law, accountancy, finance, sport, and the engineering and construction sectors.

Contact us today about your Professional Discipline & Regulation issue

If you would like to speak to our Professional Discipline & Regulation specialists please call 0800 916 9054 or e-mail pdr@rjwslatergordon.co.uk. We have offices nationwide.