This Fitness to Practise training programme for Professional Regulators covers the following topics:
- The A to Z of the complaints process under the governing legislation
- Understanding the meaning of “acting in the public interest”
- The statutory role of Council/Boards in the complaints process
- The statutory role and responsibilities of the screening Committee and Committee of Inquiry
- The grounds of complaint
- The implication of the Supreme Court’s judgment in Corbally v Medical Council 2015
- Understanding what serious means in the context of complaints
- Dealing with cases that may warrant an application to the High Court for an immediate suspension of registration
- What does prima facie mean in the context of the screening stage of the complaint?
- Dealing with non prima facie findings by the screening Committee
- Dealing with cases involving indictable convictions
- Determining sanctions to be imposed when there are findings at an inquiry
- What happens at sanction hearings
- The importance of guidance and conditions banks
- The right to appeal to the High Court
- Sanction confirmation hearings in the High Court
- Notification and publication under the governing legislation
- Relevant legal judgments and updates
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