New Park Court Chambers

Crime, Regulatory

Jade Bucklow accepts instructions in a wide range of areas, including professional discipline, regulatory, inquests and inquiries and crime. Called in 2012, Jade undertook a mixed crime and civil pupillage supervised by Caroline Wigin, a previous tenant at New Park Court who is now a Crown Court Judge sitting at St Albans Crown Court. In 2014, Jade joined the GMC where she held the role of Case Examiner and dealt extensively with the fitness to practise of doctors on the UK Medical Register.

Regulatory

Jade specialises in healthcare regulation and professional discipline. Jade was a Case Examiner at the General Medical Council for 8 years and now regularly represents and advises the GMC in fitness to practise proceedings against doctors. Jade has extensive experience representing Social Work England in fitness to practice proceedings against Social Workers and has recently been appointed as a tribunal member (Barrister) for the Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service.

Jade also regularly advises and represents the Care Quality Commission at the First Tier Tribunal, in appeals against decisions to cancel or restrict the registration of CQC registered healthcare and social care providers.

Jade has expertise in dealing with all types of fitness to practise concerns, including dishonesty, serious breaches of professional boundaries, health concerns and deficient professional performance.

Jade is able to quickly understand, critically analyse and assimilate complex medical and expert evidence. During her time at the GMC as a Case Examiner, Jade made fitness to practise decisions in all manner of clinical cases. Jade’s cases included fatal prescribing errors, obstetric injury, infant and maternal death, failures to diagnose or appropriately refer, consent issues, infant and adult sepsis and end-of-life care decisions. Her case experience covers a broad spectrum of complex medical procedures, including neurosurgery, laparoscopic surgery, orthopaedic and colorectal surgery.

Inquest & Inquiries

Jade has experience representing and advising families, Nurses, Care Workers, Care Home Providers and Prison Healthcare Providers as interested parties at inquests and inquiries where the provision of health care is a key feature of the inquest.

• Inquest touching the death of RR - Acting on behalf of the family in an inquest touching the death of a high-risk pregnant healthcare worker during the COVID – 19 pandemic. The inquest involved the assessment of risk to exposure to COVID -19 in the NHS workplace, and the care provided during the medical management of COVID 19, obstetric emergency and sepsis.
• Inquest touching the death of AK - Acting on behalf of a nurse in a prison healthcare setting during the Covid – 19 pandemic, where there were concerns about the delay in identifying and treating the deceased’s deterioration. No causative findings were made against the nurse.
• Inquest touching the death of BO - Acting on behalf of the family, where the deceased had died by suicide and the family had concerns about the prescribing of benzodiazepines.