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Professional discipline and regulatory newsletter - May 2024

9th May 2024

Welcome to 3PB's Professional Discipline newsletter edited by Daniel Brown, featuring analysis from Daniel Brown on Social Work England’s abuse of its power as a regulatory body in Meade v (1) Westminster City Council & (2) Social Work England (Case Numbers: 2201792/2022 and 2211483/2022). Sunyana Sharma considers the CoA's decision in Disclosure and Barring Service (‘DBS’) v. RI [2024] EWCA Civ 95, which confirms the Upper Tribunal's entitlement to decide that an appellant's denial of wrongdoing was credible and constituted a mistake of fact. Dr Tagbo Ilozue reviews Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care v (1) General Dental Coun-cil (2) Naveed Patel [2024] EWHC 243 (Admin) on the proper approach to sanction in professional disciplinary cases based on convictions for serious offences.

Three 3PB barristers become members

9th May 2024

3PB are pleased to announce that three barristers have become full tenants of the 250-barrister national chambers. Rhiannon Frowde, Kate Davies and Charlotte Steer (pictured left to right from the top) have all successfully completed their probationary tenancies with 3PB, having done all or some of their pupillages at other chambers. Former medical research fellow Rhiannon Frowde (call:2022) is based from 3PB's London office and will continue to focus on clinical negligence and personal injury...

Re P and E (Care Proceedings: Whether to Hold a Fact-Finding Hearing) [2024] EWCA Civ 403

2nd May 2024

Five of 3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) family law team have appeared in the recent Court of Appeal case of Re P and E (Care Proceedings: Whether to Hold a Fact-Finding Hearing) [2024] EWCA Civ 403. In the case, Matiss Krumins, leading pupil Laurie-Elizabeth Ketley, appeared for the local authority, Stephen Abberley appeared for the children, and Elizabeth McGrath KC, leading Laura Scott, appeared for the First Respondent (the mother). The case involved an appeal...

Andrew Duncan appears before the President of the Family Division in Fact Find Hearing

30th April 2024

3PB family barrister Andrew Duncan (pictured here), representing the children, appeared before the President of the Family Division in Re D & R (Children) (Fact Finding; Certain and Uncertain Perpetrator) [2023] EWFC 305, which was a non-accidental injury fact find where the court entered findings of both certain perpetrator and uncertain perpetrators. Of note, the parents text messages demonstrated a high degree of collusion and, as a result, the significant degree in which both parents...