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David Bennett

Year of Call: 2005
Email Address: [email protected]
CJSM: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 7583 8055

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Clerks Details

  • Clerk Name: Gemma Faulkner
  • Clerk Telephone: 020 7583 8055
  • Clerk Email: [email protected]

Overview

David Bennett has specialised in professional regulation and disciplinary law for almost 20 years. He has extensive experience of advising and representing regulators and regulated professionals.

He sits as a legally qualified chair of professional conduct hearings, and is appointed to the Bar Standards Board’s independent decision-making panel.

He was a visiting teacher of Medical Law at the London School of Economics, and he has a postgraduate certificate in Patient Safety from the University of Oxford.

Expertise

  • Professional Discipline
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    David Bennett has experience of advising and representing a wide range of professional regulators including the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Bar Standards Board, the General Dental Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Health and Care Professions Council, the General Chiropractic Council, Social Work England and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

    This experience includes advising regulators on complex investigations, presenting cases before tribunals, and representing regulators in relation to extensions of interim orders and appeals against sanctions eg Moseley v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2013] EWHC 2108 (Admin).

    For a number of years, he co-authored the "Atkins Court Form publication (volume 28) on the National Health Service" for LexisNexis, and was a visiting teacher of Medical Law at the London School of Economics. He has a postgraduate certificate in Patient Safety from the University of Oxford.