Expert advice, investigations and advocacy for regulators

At Blake Morgan, our expert regulatory solicitors and barristers have extensive experience in advising regulators – offering specialist legal advice in developing and operating within their regulatory schemes.
We act for a large number of regulators and help them navigate the changing regulatory landscape. They tell us it’s our experience and understanding of the sectors they regulate that makes our regulatory law service first class.

Our Regulatory Law team is also recognised by the legal directories as a leading practice representing regulators in disciplinary hearings, appeals and judiciary reviews.

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Main Areas Of Practice


Our expert Regulatory Law team provides straightforward and bespoke advice on a diverse range of complex issues faced by our regulatory clients:

Investigations

Our regulatory solicitors work with some of the UK's leading regulators to lead and manage investigations regarding alleged misconduct, lack of competence and health-related matters. This includes cases with multiple registrants, allegations spanning over a number years, and dealing with sensitive and vulnerable witnesses.

Tribunal advocacy

Our clients benefit from specialist advocacy from our in-house barristers and solicitors before Interim Orders, Committees, Professional Conduct Committees, Competence Committees, Fitness to Practise Panels, Registration Appeals Panels and other tribunals. Our regulatory barristers and solicitors appear weekly before various professional regulatory tribunals.

Appeals and judicial reviews

Our regulatory law experts provide support and representation in appeals to internal review panels, First-tier Tribunals and the High Court.

Statutory frameworks, drafting and governance

Our regulatory lawyers specialise in drafting Codes of Conduct, protocols, indicative sanctions guidance, disciplinary rules, primary and secondary legislation and standard operating procedures.

Legal Advisors to Statutory Committees

Our Regulatory Law team regularly acts as Legal Advisor to Fitness to Practise Panels and Conduct and Competence Committees.

Training

Our regulatory lawyers provide bespoke training to in-house teams and committee and panel members on areas including case law updates, structured decision-making and drafting of reasons for decisions.

Auditing and serious incident reviews

Our Regulatory Law team is experienced in conducting reviews of decisions of Investigating Committees, Case Examiners and Fitness to Practise Panels and leading on serious incident reviews. We draft reports and identify learning outcomes.

Information Law Advice

Our regulatory solicitors provide guidance on matters relating to the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, GDPR and confidentiality issues.

Our Clients


Our regulatory solicitors and barristers act for clients across all the major regulatory sectors including health, education, accountancy and legal. Our clients tell us it’s our understanding of their sector and pragmatic approach that has helped us build longstanding relationships with some of the largest regulators across the UK.

"The team is very professional and has excellent levels of communication. The lawyers are always available and respond to matters in a very timely manner."
- Legal 500, 2023


"Their expert knowledge in regulatory law is excellent. They are knowledgeable, reliable, professional and approachable."
- Chambers and Partners, 2020


Awards, Accolades and Accreditations


Our Experts


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Albuery
Partner and Head of Regulatory

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Dowgray
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Case Studies

In an appeal against a Fitness to Practise panel decision, the High Court considered the issue of the correct basis for a case being remitted for re-hearing. This proved to...

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An Employment Tribunal (ET) has upheld a discrimination claim against Social Work England (SWE) after it took regulatory action against a social worker who had posted gender-critical views on her...

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The reform of the regulation of healthcare professionals continues with the introduction of new legislation for anaesthesia associates and physician associates. On 13 December 2023, the long-awaited Anaesthesia Associate and...

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As part of a wider piece of enforcement work on climate change and the environment, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) challenged environmental marketing claims on behalf of both Lufthansa and...

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By his decision in Aga v General Dental Council (GDC) [2023] EWHC 3208 (Admin), Mr Justice Ritchie has overturned the approach long taken by regulatory bodies whose statutory scheme includes...

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The Department of Health and Social Care is to lead a review into the effectiveness of the statutory duty of candour for health service bodies in England.

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