Professional Misconduct in UK Law
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Health Practitioner Regulation: Has the National Law Produced National Outcomes in Serious Disciplinary Matters?
Since 2010, a national scheme regulates the registration, accreditation and discipline of health professionals in Australia (the ‘National Law’). This research examines disciplinary cases from trib...... ... produced consistency in outcomes in serious cases of professional misconduct? All publicly available Australian tribunal-level decisions ... ...
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Contested texts: issues of plagiarism
Popular views of plagiarism are based on the concept of original authorship and the moral and economic implications of it. Plagiarism itself is usually linked with academic misconduct by students a...... ... There is clearly a mixture of legal,intellectual, social, professional, and moralissues here. There are also matters ofreputation, acceptance, ... Plagiarism itself is usually linked withacademic misconduct by students and by teachers/lecturers/writers. Reaction by institutions ... ...
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Experts and pretenders: Examining possible responses to misconduct by experts in criminal trials in England and Wales
Much academic literature explores the reliability of expert evidence in criminal proceedings in England and Wales. However, almost no attention has been paid to misconduct by experts giving evidenc...... ... England and Wales, noting particularly the differences in responses available, depending firstly upon whether the expert is a registered professional, and secondly whether the expert has stepped outside of their expertise; did not have relevant expertise at all, or was dishonest. Professional ... ...
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Reinstatement of Previously Deregistered Health Professionals in Australia: Legal Determinations of Risk, Patient Safety, and Public Interest
Each year approximately 60 registered health practitioners in Australia have their registration cancelled for reasons of serious misconduct or, less commonly, impairment or criminal conviction. Can...... ... have their registrationcancelled for reasons of serious misconduct or, less commonly, impairment or criminal conviction.Cancellation remains ... determinations concerning reinstatement areundertaken by professional Boards in private. This research examines available reinstatementdecisions ... ...
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Reinstatement of Previously Deregistered Health Professionals in Australia: Legal Determinations of Risk, Patient Safety, and Public Interest
Each year approximately 60 registered health practitioners in Australia have their registration cancelled for reasons of serious misconduct or, less commonly, impairment or criminal conviction. Can...... ... have their registrationcancelled for reasons of serious misconduct or, less commonly, impairment or criminal conviction.Cancellation remains ... determinations concerning reinstatement areundertaken by professional Boards in private. This research examines available reinstatementdecisions ... ...
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Officer attitudes toward citizen review and professional accountability
The practice of citizen review has developed as one method for improving the accountability of law enforcement officers to the general public and to their respective criminal justice organizations....... ... , and this study found that police officers with a deeper understating of the OPA system were more willing to report misconduct. Also, police officers who possess higher satisfaction attitudes toward the OPA were more likely to report grievances to it ... ...
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Quarterly Summary
... ... Court held that although in matters concerning professional misconduct the court was very loth to interfere with the ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... sanction; expert evidence; finding of seriousprofessional misconduct; Fitness to Practise Panel (FPP);good faith; immunity from suit; immunity ... to Practise Panel (FPP) found that there hadbeen serious professional misconduct and ordered that he bestruck from the register.The appealSir ... ...
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THE DISCIPLINARY JURISDICTION OF PROFESSIONAL TRIBUNALS
... ... principal grounds: (i) conviction of a criminal offence, and (ii) conduct variously described as professional misconduct or infamous conduct in a professional respect. 1 The Medical Act, 1868. 2 The Professions Supplementary to Medicine ... ...
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Subject Index, Volume 79, 2006
... ... – 376 Problem-Oriented policing (POP) 172, 175, 177 – 193 Professional misconduct, serious 282 – 284 Prostitution victim philosophy 77 – 89 ... ...
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