Paul is a regulatory lawyer who specialises in healthcare litigation, CQC enforcement action and disputes, inquests and defending HSE prosecutions. Paul led the legal team that acted for the Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England) at the Mid Staffs Inquiry. He is an accredited advanced police station advisor and represents and advises health sector clients who are interviewed under caution by the HSE, Police and NHS Counter Fraud investigators. Paul regularly advises Trusts and private providers who have conditions imposed on their registration or who face emergency (Magistrates Court) or slow cancellation proceedings (First tier Tribunal). For many years Paul has also acted for the regulator (L/As under the RHA 1984, NCSC, CSCI, HCC, OFSTED and CQC) and has a wealth of experience and clear understanding of the approach that is required to such enforcement cases. He is acutely aware of the potentially damaging impact of publicity on clients' businesses having acted in numerous cases where publicity was a crucial factor. These include acting for the undercover Nurse who covertly filmed for Channel 4 Dispatches, for Castlebeck following the broadcast film on Winterbourne View, for one of the UK’s leading private providers of termination services after an undercover Daily Telegraph journalist recorded one of the Consultants offering a sex selection termination and for the HPA/PHE at the Mid Staffs Inquiry. Paul is principally instructed by Solicitors and in-house teams but does accept direct access instructions from healthcare clients.
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