Crime ยท professional discipline
Professional discipline barristers, instructed directly.
If your professional body brings disciplinary proceedings, a barrister can advise you and represent you to protect your career.
At a glance
Fitness to practise
Proceedings about conduct and competence.
Many regulators
GMC, NMC, GDC, SRA, ICAEW and others.
Your career
Representation to protect your registration.
Professional discipline concerns action by regulators against the people they regulate, such as doctors, nurses, dentists, solicitors, accountants and teachers, where conduct or competence is in question. A barrister can advise on investigations and fitness to practise proceedings and represent you at the disciplinary tribunal, where your registration and livelihood are at stake.
A barrister will assess the allegations, the evidence and the realistic outcome, and represent you at the hearing and on appeal. Through Direct Access you can instruct a barrister directly, without going through a solicitor first.
Barristers are regulated by the Bar Standards Board.
Through Direct Access you can instruct a professional discipline barrister directly, without going through a solicitor first. Barristers are regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB).
When to bring in a barrister
Your regulator has opened an investigation into your conduct
You face a fitness to practise hearing
You need to appeal a disciplinary decision
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Frequently asked questions
Can a barrister represent me before my professional regulator?
Yes. Through Direct Access a barrister can advise you and represent you at a disciplinary or fitness to practise hearing, without going through a solicitor first.
How serious are these proceedings?
Very. Outcomes can include conditions, suspension or removal from the register. Early specialist representation matters.
What does it cost?
Barristers often agree a fixed fee for advice or a hearing. There is no charge to enquire.
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