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

Kenneth Hamer has, heroically, managed to assemble into one volume the most important decisions in a disparate field. The reader of this casebook will find cases involving doctors and other medical professionals, teachers, lawyers, financiers, sportsmen, social workers and others.