Delme Griffiths
Partner
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Delme is a Partner within our Regulatory Group, specialising in professional regulation.
Main areas of practice
Delme specialises in the legal, education and health and social care sectors, leading our important work for several regulatory bodies as client partner.
As well as advising and supporting clients in the exercise of their regulatory functions, Delme appears as an advocate in fitness to practise/professional conduct cases. He also acts as legal adviser to professional conduct panels and has represented individuals defending cases brought by their regulators.
More broadly, Delme has advised other public sector organisations in relation to a variety of issues, including judicial review proceedings.
Clients
Delme has worked with a number of regulators, including: the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Social Care Wales, the Teaching Regulation Agency, the Education Workforce Council and the Health and Care Professions Council.
Expertise & Services
Delme Griffiths’ knowledge of regulatory law is encyclopaedic - for more complicated cases this knowledge is invaluable.
Career
Delme qualified as a solicitor in 2005. He joined Blake Morgan in 2012 and was promoted to Partner in May 2023.
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Accreditations

Memberships
- Association of Disciplinary & Regulatory Lawyers
Significant Experience
- Advising the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on a wide range of matters including intervention challenges, proceedings in the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) and judicial review proceedings. This includes investigating cases of professional misconduct, appearing before the SDT and advising the SRA in the exercise of its statutory functions.
- Appearing in numerous fitness to practise/professional misconduct cases, including presenting cases on behalf of Social Care Wales and the SRA and appearing on behalf of regulated individuals facing allegations of misconduct.
- Acting as legal adviser to professional conduct panels of the Education Workforce Council and the Teaching Regulation Agency.
- Advising in numerous complex regulatory and disciplinary investigations.
- Judicial review proceedings, acting on behalf of clients including the SRA, the Financial Ombudsman Service and Welsh Government.
- Advising the NHS in relation to a range of quasi-regulatory issues, policy matters and disputes.
Insights by Delme
Case Studies 21 February - Matthew Bird
What needs to be considered for a case to be remitted for a re-hearing?
In an appeal against a Fitness to Practise panel decision, the High Court considered the issue of the…
Articles 1 November - Luke Williams
Future Regulation: holding organisations to account for failure to prevent fraud by employees
The Government has introduced a new offence whereby organisations will be potentially accountable for fraud committed by employees…
Articles 26 October - Luke Williams
Sexual harassment – updated GMC guidance
The General Medical Council (GMC) has updated its Good Medical Practice guidance to address sexual harassment in the…
