Professional Disciplinary Regulators & the Family Court - A Guide for Family Lawyers

Introduction

Family law does not exist in a silo. One of the areas which frequently impacts on family law is the existence of a professional disciplinary regulator, regulating one or more of the parties and who may take action against them due to allegations connected to their private lives, even if not directly connected to their professional lives.

If you conduct financial remedy proceedings or Children Act proceedings in which one or more of the parties have jobs in which they are regulated - teachers, lawyers, pharmacists, vets, architects, dentists, doctors, nurses, social workers, accountants and people working in finance - then this is the webinar you need to view.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Overview of disciplinary regulatory proceedings including their procedure, the burden of proof, how evidence is dealt with from a vulnerable party, the inquisitorial approach, timing and the make up of the panels
• The importance to a regulator of obtaining Family Court disclosure and the case of PSA v NMC and X
• Rules on disclosure from the Family Court to the regulatory bodies - FPR 12G, s12 AJA 1960 and Re Z (Disclosure to Social Work England: Findings of Domestic Abuse)
• How to deal with mistakes on disclosure from the Family Court - General Dental Council v KK & Anor [2024] dealing with the unlawful handling of private information from family proceedings and contempt of court
• Rules on disclosure from the regulatory bodies into the Family Court - how to seek the documents and the approach of the individual regulators to disclosure from their proceedings into the Family Court
• Admissibility and weight to be attached by the Family Court to any evidence or findings made in regulatory proceedings - credibility, FPR Part 23 and the Civil Evidence Act 1995, potential estoppel
• Likely penalties for domestic abuse in the regulatory bodies and the case of Ibrahim v General Medical Council

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 26th September 2025

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