Gem Casey

Gem is a Senior Associate in the Professional Regulatory team, with a wide range of experience across the healthcare, social care and education sectors. By virtue of her experience and skill-set, Gem is able to carry out a hybrid role, acting as case manager, advocate and legal adviser to panels, and has done this successfully for a number of years.

Main areas of practice

Professional regulatory

Gem has a broad area of expertise in professional disciplinary matters involving health, education and social care professionals. On behalf of her regulator clients, she undertakes fitness to practise investigations and sits as a legal adviser to regulatory committees. She presents hearings before fitness to practise committees, interim order committees and registration appeal panels, as well as the Care Standards Tribunal.

Criminal / Regulatory

Gem also has experience advising in relation to the criminal and regulatory aspects of health and safety; health and social care; food safety; environmental; and product safety, on behalf of both individual and corporate defendants.

Clients

Gem manages fitness to practise investigations on behalf of the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC), and has experience of the same for the Nursing and Midwifery Council. She also acts on behalf of the HCPC in relation to interim order hearings, and interim order extension applications to the High Court.

Gem acts on behalf of Social Care Wales (SCW) in interim order hearings and final hearings. Gem also prepares SCW matters for a final hearing and represents SCW before the Care Standards Tribunal.

Gem also acts as legal adviser for the Education Workforce Council (EWC) in respect of fitness to practise hearings; interim order hearings; suitability committees; and investigating committees.

Expertise & Services

• Regulatory, disciplinary & compliance
• Advising regulators
• Healthcare
• Health & safety
• Defending professionals

Career

Gem graduated from Cardiff University in 2007 in Law and Politics before returning to Cardiff University to complete the Bar Vocational Course in 2008.

Gem initially joined the company as a Paralegal working on both the Credit Hire and Professional Regulatory teams, when she cross-qualified as a Solicitor in 2012, and commenced employment at BLM in the Defendant Industrial Disease team.

Gem returned to Blake Morgan in 2015 as a Solicitor on the Regulatory team.