Kingsley Napley LLP

Regulatory

Shannett has a varied client base which consists of regulators, individual registrants, entrepreneurs, care homes and other businesses.

In the healthcare sector, she is regularly instructed to conduct investigations on behalf of regulatory bodies in relation to allegations of a serious nature. In respect of individual registrants, the majority of her defence work is on behalf of doctors, nurses and therapists relating to all the stages of the fitness to practise process from initial complaint to appeal. She also appears as an advocate before both interim order and conduct and competence committees on behalf of her regulator clients.

In the education section, she acts in respect of cases where a decision may be made to prohibit teachers from the profession. She also advises and represents students in respect of investigations, largely relating to academic and sexual misconduct.

Shannett has contributed to publications by LexisNexis, Lexology, Cannabis Wealth, the Journal of Professional Negligence and City Wealth Magazine. She is an avid commentator and has features in newspapers and blogs.

Shannett is also a diversity and inclusion advocate, winning the Chambers Outstanding Contribution Award 2021 – Diversity and Inclusion Private Practice and Judges Choice Award – Women for Africa 2022.

Shannett qualified in 2007 having completed her training in-house within a legal services department of a NHS Trust. She joined Kingsley Napley in 2011 and became a Partner in 2020.

Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Private Prosecutors’ Association (PPA)