Regulation and Compliance

We can assist you with:

Determining the rules and regulations that apply to you and what you do, explaining their implications and potential impact on your business or practices and advising you on your legal compliance obligations.

Interpreting regulatory provisions and making sure you know precisely what they mean for you and/or your business, advising you what you must do to comply, ensuring you understand the dangers and consequences of non-compliance, and explaining the rights and powers of the authorities to force compliance and the action they may take if you don’t comply.

Assisting you in creating and implementing policies, strategies, systems and procedures to achieve and maintain compliance and reviewing, auditing and testing your systems and procedures to ensure that they are fit for purpose.

Representing you in a wide variety of regulatory matters, including preparation for and representation at interviews, in courts and tribunals, at inquests and at public inquiries, and in fitness to practice hearings, making or responding to complaints and advising, assisting and representing you in relation to regulatory enforcement action, defending prosecutions, and in judicial reviews of decisions and actions by regulatory authorities.

These are just some of the regulated areas in which we specialise:

• Charity Commission issues
  
• General Medical Council GMC matters
  
• Advertising standards
  
• Information and data
  
• Gangmaster Licensing
  
• Nursing and midwifery NMC issues
  
• Ofsted and Ofqual interventions
  
• Press complaints
  
• Care Quality Commission CQC matters
  
• Trading standards