Our team have extensive experience in acting in public inquiries and inquests, complex business and financial investigations.

Our team offers skills in dealing with large and complex investigations and in handling high profile, media sensitive cases. 

Our service

Our advice to organisations is underpinned by

• our lawyers’ extensive experience in regulatory matters
• our in depth understanding of the regulatory environment and of the key concerns facing regulators
• our focus on providing the highest quality client service, tailored to individual requirements
• our innovative approach to value added services and costs structures
• wide geographical coverage via our national network of offices 

Advice areas:

We are able to provide organisations with a comprehensive package of services, tailored according to the individual organisation’s requirements, in the following areas:

• advice on the exercise of regulatory functions and on policy issues
• all areas pertaining to the statutory or non-statutory disciplinary schemes, including interpretation, drafting or obtaining of primary and secondary legislation and drafting of non- statutory procedures
• acting as legal advisers to regulatory panels
• registration and retention issues
• investigation of disciplinary complaints, whether single or large volume caseloads
• preparation of cases for fitness to practise/disciplinary proceedings, whether related to interim orders, case management/preliminary issues, substantive conduct, competence, health or criminal conviction matters, substantive order review hearings and restoration applications
• case presentation/advocacy in all of the above areas
• acting in appeals against decisions of regulatory panels, whether under internal processes or via statutory appeals to the High Court or Privy Council
• training programmes, individually-designed for  regulatory panellists; externally appointed legal advisers; or for the organisation’s in house legal team or case officers
• bespoke reviews or audits of: procedures policies, exercise of regulatory functions, regulatory panel decisions, appraisal of panellists
• preparation, or review of,  procedural guidance documents for lay and professional panellists or external legal advisers

Contact our Professional Discipline & Regulation specialists today

If you would like to speak to our professional discipline & regulation specialists please call 0800 916 9054 or e-mail enquiries@rjwslatergordon.co.uk. we have offices nationwide.