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Re PC Maqbool (West Yorkshire Police HQ, January 2006) – Acted for the accused officer at the first ever full hearing within the West Yorkshire Police arising from unsatisfactory attendance under Police (Efficiency) Regulations 1999 (as amended).
Re PC Sarah Simms & Others (Misconduct Hearing, Derbyshire, October 2006) – Defended one of seven officers whose alleged misconduct arose over alleged flawed investigation of a campaign of harassment by a man called Mark Dyche of his estranged partner, a woman called Tanya Moore (Dyche was prosecuted to conviction for Moore’s murder at Nottingham Crown Court in 2005).
Re PC A (Misconduct Hearing, January 2007) – Defending. Allegations of sexual abuse of trust by force domestic violence officer.
Re Bettley (Misconduct Hearing, March 2009). Presenting case against officer accused of membership of BNP.
Siberry’s Application [2008] NIQB 147 (High Court of Northern Ireland). Successful application for judicial review of decision of Senior Coroner to call Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland to give non-expert opinion evidence on standard of medical care afforded to deceased prison inmate.
R (Muldoon) v Independent Police Complaints Commission [2009] EWHC 3633 Admin. Successfully defended IPCC against allegations of bias and impropriety in its scrutiny of complaints about a Merseyside Police investigation of conduct of various police officers in their dealings with the Claimant’s son.
R (Northumbria Police Authority) v Broome (March 2010). Successful challenge to Selected Medical Practitioner’s approach to review, under Regulation 37(1) of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006, of a pensioner’s degree of disablement.
R (North Yorkshire Police Authority) v IPCC [2010] EWHC 1690 (Admin). Whether complaint about refusal by Chief Constable personally to investigate alleged criminal wrongdoing amounted to an issue relating to his personal conduct or one relating to the direction and control of his force. (Led by John Beggs QC).
R (Flint) v Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police [2010] EWHC 2025 (Admin). Whether Regulation 5(4) of the Police Regulations 2003 imposed a mandatory obligation on the Chief Constable to re-characterise a part-time employee as a full-time one, so as to enhance sick-pay entitlement.
Inquests
- 2008 before Deputy West Yorkshire Coroner (and a jury), arising from death of innocent third party during successful operation to apprehend drug dealer - represented police officer whose conduct one other interested person in particular wanted to impugn.
-2008 - before Greater Belfast Coroner, arising from death of an elderly woman following post operative complications: represented one of the two consultant surgeons.
-2008 - before Deputy South Yorkshire Coroner (and a jury), arising from death of prison inmate from septicaemia: represented one of the prison doctors.
-2009 - represented psychiatrist in inquest arising from death of a child and her mother; the mother smothered her daughter, then took her own life.
-2010 - represented (as led junior) retired GP in inquest into deaths of three of his terminally ill patients. Key issues were the amounts of morphone administered to his patients in their final hours, the justification for the dosages selected and whether those dosages accelerated or hastened death.
Employment
- Several ongoing cases representing police forces accused of acting in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
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