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.

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