2010 Tenant at 3 Serjeants’ Inn
2009 Pupillage at 3 Serjeants’ Inn
2007-09 Bar Vocational Course, BPP
2006 GDL, City Law School
2003-06 Philosophy BA (Hons), St. John’s College, Cambridge
2001-03 St Paul’s Girls’ School
1996-01 St Philomena’s Catholic High School for Girls

Scholarships and awards:
Lady Templeman Indo-British Award, Middle Temple, 2009
Diplock Scholar, Middle Temple, 2008
McMahon Law Studentship, St. John’s College, Cambridge, 2006 and 2007

Email: srickard@3serjeantsinn.com

Susanna has a developing interest in professional regulation and representing professionals before their disciplinary bodies.  She has appeared in the GMC and prior to joining the bar she gained some experience in SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority) related work.       

 
Medical Discipline
Representing healthcare professionals before regulatory bodies including the GMC, GDC and PCTs as well as medical school disciplinary hearings, and providing representation in the First Tier Tribunal (Primary Health Lists).  Susanna was recently successful in a two-day restoration application in front of the GMC’s Fitness to Practise panel, on behalf of a student doctor who had worked for six months whilst knowingly unregistered.  The panel concluded that the public interest would be served by restoring the doctor to the register.  Susanna accepted this instruction through the Bar Pro Bono Unit.

Police Discipline

Advising and representing in misconduct hearings.

'Public Order: Law and Practice' (Oxford University Press), publication date January 2012 - with John Beggs QC and George Thomas

 'Naming and shaming: unsuccessful Rule 42 challenge to verdict of neglect against a care provider' Personal Injury Brief Update Law Journal, October 2010

 'Should a licence be granted for exhumation of a body in the face of the family's objection?' Personal Injury Brief Update Law Journal, November 2009

Susanna is a contributing editor to the Medical Law Reports.