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Index for "5th edition, Chapter 13"

Legal representation and the Human Rights Act

Where the effect of disciplinary proceedings can deprive an employee of the right to practise his or her profession, article 6 of the Human Rights Convention is engaged. If follows that he is entitled...

Legal representation: seriousness of proceedings

Where an individual is subject to two or more sets of proceedings, or phases of a proceeding, and a civil right or obligation would be determined in one of them, he could, by force of article 6 of the...

Reasons

‘… in straightforward cases, setting out the facts to be proved (as is the present practice of the GMC) and finding them proved or not proved will generally be sufficient both to demonstrate to th...

Unnecessary advice

Tribunals should beware of giving unnecessary advice or rulings. In the case of Office of Communications T-Mobile (UK) Ltd v Floe Telecom Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 47 Mummery LJ observed: -- ‘Specialist t...