1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review – Summer 2020 – Issue 6 - Sep 2020
Professional Discipline & Regulation
William Edis KC has extensive experience in acting before professional disciplinary tribunals, most commonly those of the General Medical Council, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and the General Dental Council. He has acted in cases of clinical incompetence, behavioural misconduct, sexual misconduct, fraud (including research fraud), behavioural misconduct and general issues of dishonesty. He has particular experience in performance and competence issues.
Recently, he has successfully helped a doctor be restored following administrative erasure even though complaints had been made during the period of non-registration, assisted veterinary surgeons in various disciplinary inquiries and represented Dr Michalak in her successful trip to the Supreme Court in relation to the jurisdiction of the Employment Tribunal where a registrant wishes to allege discriminatory treatment by a regulator that is unlawful under the Equality Act 2010.
He is the Chair of the Disciplinary Appeals Tribunal of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
Selected Cases
- Michalak v General Medical Council & others [2017] UKSC 71: forum for complaints of unlawful discrimination within regulatory proceedings.
- Lovett v HCPC [2018] EWHC (Admin) 1024
- Muscat v HCP [2009] EWCA Civ 1090: fresh evidence on appeal where that appeal takes the form of a rehearing.
- Chakrabarty v Ipswich Hospitals NHS Trust and NCAS [2014] EWHC 2735 (QB): parallel proceedings before the MPTS and under MHPS
- R (ota Michalak) v GMC [2011] EWHC 2307 (Admin): Consequences of a GMC panel becoming inquorate mid-hearing.
William Edis QC secures compensation for brain damaged boy - Jul 2020
William Edis QC, instructed by Corrina Mottram of Gadsby Wicks, acted on behalf of a young child who had suffered severe brain damage as a result of negligence leading up to the time of his birth. ...
1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review – Spring 2020 – Issue 5 - May 2020
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LawPod UK Ep. 110: Commercial surrogacy arrangements – within or without the law? - May 2020
In the latest episode of Law Pod UK, Rosalind English talks to William Edis QC of 1 Crown Office Row about the recent Supreme Court ruling on whether damages can be claimed against the NHS in respect...
The End, the Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning: Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings - Nov 2018
This seminar, with opening remarks from Richard Booth QC and chaired by Clodagh Bradley QC, will look at Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal relating to professional discipline and regulatory...
William Edis QC succeeds in the Supreme Court in a significant case concerning regulated professionals - Nov 2017
William Edis QC, with Adam Ohringer of Cloisters, successfully resisted an appeal to the Supreme Court by the General Medical Council. They were instructed for the claimant by RadcliffesLeBrasseur,...
William Edis QC wins important discrimination appeal against the GMC - Mar 2016