Alexander Barristers Chambers' Areas of Work (A-Z)
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Care Standards Law, Care Home Law and Nursing Fees Challenges
Clinical Negligence Professional Negligence
Coroner's Inquests and Public Inquiries
Criminal Law (Medical and Regulatory)
Court of Protection and High Court Applications
Employment Law
Medical Law
Mental Health Law
Personal Injury
Professional Conduct, Fitness to Practise and Health Committee Law
Public Law Challenges
Regulatory Law and Licensing
Serious Case Review Authorship and Independent Chairing
Reputation Management: Libel, Defamation, Slander, Damages, Counter-Publicity, Corrections
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- Care Standards Law, Care Home Law, Nursing Fees:
- Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW/CSSIW)
- Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) England
- Care Home closures and registrations
- Emergency Care Home Closures - Represention and Advice
- Care Home Standards and Protocols - failing homes, improvement of homes
- Care Home Commercial Disputes - contractual and supplier
- Challenges to NHS assessments of primary health care needs and nursing fees, whether total care or Registered Nursing Care Contributions (RNCC) NHS Continuing Care
- Legal Responses to CSCI CQC Criticism
- Appeals to Care Standards Tribunal (CST) and other similar bodies
- Ofsted Inspections and Closures: Children's Homes, Nurseries and Schools. Legal responses to critical reports and notices of cancellation.
- Reputation Management:
- Injunctions to Stop Publication of False Stories against Clinicians and Clinical Establishments
- Libel / Slander Claims
- Defamation Actions
- Corrections for Newspaper and Media Distortions and Mis-reporting
- Claims for Damages / Compensation in Defamation Actions
- Correspondence with Newspapers and Media Organisations to provide Correct Information
- Clinical Negligence & Professional Negligence:
- Clinical accidents and Personal Injury
- Surgical failings and errors
- Acts and omissions leading to injury or death - Fatalities
- Faulty clinical products or inappropriate use of medicines
- Pressure Sore development
- Incompetence clinically or managerially
- Birth injuries and Defects
- Both claimant and defence work undertaken in all clinical and paramedical specialities
- General Professional negligence for industries and professions allied to health
- Pharmaceutical Claims and Medical Research Law
- Coroner's Inquests and Public Inquiries:
- Inquests into unnatural or violent deaths, or deaths from unknown causes.
- Advice on evidence and verdicts, including narrative verdicts. Verdicts can include: suicide, unlawful killing, accidental death, death by misadventure, death from clinical or other neglect or self-neglect.
- Advice on appealing under s.13 Coroners Act 1988 (with the Attorney General's Fiat or Permission) or judicially reviewing a coroner's decision.
- Representing:
- Families
- Clinicians
- Individuals
- Professionals
- Hospitals and Nursing Homes
- Local Authorities
- Commercial Organisations
- National Bodies
- Other 'interested parties'
- Prisons and Police Forces
- Criminal Law (Medical and Regulatory):
- Medical Malpractice - Assault (treatment without consent)
- Unlawful killings (accidental killings, homicide)
- Causation medical issues (death and serious harm)
- Indecent assault in clinic (allegations of improriety)
- Clinical Fraud, Overclaiming fees for services not provided
- Defence of doctors, nurses, dentists, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals in criminal proceedings
- Health and Safety prosecutions and defence
- Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) Challenges
- Office of Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) prosecutions
- Public Law, Court of Protection and High Court Applications:
- Medical law and ethics generally
- Patient's refusal to consent
- Advance directives - Living Wills
- Capacity - adults, minors
- Withdrawal of treatment
- Capacity Act 2005 legal issues
- Injunctions and Injunctive Relief
- Challenges to Hospital Doctors and Coroners Decisions
- Challenges on Grounds of Religious Belief (Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.)
- Public Health Law
- Public Law Challenges
- Serious Case Review Authorship and Independent Chairing
- Public Inquiry Representation
- Independent Chairing
- Employment Law (Medical and General Employment):
- Employer Disciplinary Hearing Representation
- Unfair Dismissal Claims
- Discrimination Claims
- Employer and Employee Advice and Representation
- Advice on Settlements
- Personal Injury:
- Complex and simple injuries
- Tripping and Slipping
- Fatal accidents
- Workplace accidents
- Catastrophic injuries
- Both claimant and defence work undertaken
- Product Liability
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Awards
- Mental Health Law:
- Mental Health Act 1983 & 2007 Matters
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 Matters
- Court of Protection Act 2007 Matters
- Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs)
- First and Second Tier Mental Health Cases
- Regulatory Law:
- Office of Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA) cases - the new adjuducator replacing many current regulator's FTP adjudication responsibilities
- General Medical Council (GMC - doctors - all legal aspects including fitness to practise, interim orders registration, revalidation and licenisng)
- GP Performance Lists Suspensions, Hearings, Appeals, Advice
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC - nurses and midwives)
- General Dental Council (GDC - dentists)
- General Optical Council (GOC - opticians and optometrists)
- General Social Care Council (GSCC) and Care Council for Wales (CCW) Cases - Social Workers, Personal Care Workers, Other Carers)
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB - registered pharmacists and registered pharmacy technicians)
- General Teaching Council (GTC - Teachers)
- Royal Society of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Veterinary Practitioners - Vets and Veterinary Nurses Regulation
- Alternative Medicine Practitioners
- Solicitors Regulatory Authority Law (SRA - Solicitors)
- Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) Law - Undue Lenience Appeals
- Domiciliary Care Agencies and Providers Registration Law
- Sports Bodies & Regulators (Sports law)
- Appeals and judicial review from tribunal decisions (JR).
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (SVGA), Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) Law, Protection of Children Act (POCA) and Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) Referrals, Writen Responses, and Appeals to the Care Standards Tribunal (CST) Tier One and Tier Two
- Trading Standards Law
- Financial Services Regulation
- Agricultural Law, Animal Health Prosecutions
- Animal Cruelty Law and Regulation
- Alcohol Licensing and Regulation
- Police Law, Police Discipline and Police Misconduct
- Health Professions Council (HPC) governing:
- Art psychotherapist, Art therapist
- Dramatherapist, Music therapist
- Biomedical scientist, Medical laboratory technician
- Chiropodist, Podiatrist
- Clinical scientist
- Dietician
- Hearing Aid Dispenser
- Occupational therapist
- Orthoptist
- Paramedic
- Physiotherapist
- Practitioner Psychologist
- Prosthetist, Orthotist
- Operating Department Practitioner (ODP)
- Radiographer
- Speech and language therapist, Speech therapist
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