Kingsley Napley promotes two partners as part of regulatory launch
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Kingsley Napley has launched a four-partner regulatory and professional discipline team, making up two new partners in the process.
John Harding
A branch-off of its criminal and regulatory department, which has grown to 80 lawyers, the team will consist of over 30 practitioners, headed by crime partner John Harding.
The decision was made following consultation with the existing department and a unanimous vote in favour.
Melinka Berridge and Ben Kemp have been promoted and will join Nicola Hill as partners in the new team.
The firm will also admit barrister Julie Norris to the partnership when she completes her qualification as a solicitor.
Elizabeth Taheri, also a barrister, has been appointed as an associate.
The team’s key clients include the Health Professionals Council, the Security Industry Authority and the General Teaching Council.
Managing partner Linda Woolley said: “This step recognises the strength and recent success of our regulatory and professional discipline team and our growth ambitions in this area going forward.”
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Kay Coombes | 24-May-2011 8:07 am
Power without responsibility:
I note Ms Wolley's reference to the "strength" and "success" of "our regulatory and professional discipline team and our growth ambitions in the area going forward". Does this mean that Kingsley Napley intends to continue to promote a climate of gladiatorial combat in pursuing the interests of its "key client" The Health Professions Council? That so called "independent" in fact unaccountable, body is about health politics, not protection of the public. It is saddening to see the KN snout so enthusiastically in a trough filled from the pockets of HPC registrants. How about putting something back- like a review of the playing field on which KN barristers and solicitors hone their courtroom skills on registrants who are often unrepresented, rely on the inadequate and misleading advice published by the HPC and who even when they are exonerated at Hearing, have no chance of recovering financial costs- let alone compensation for the massive disruption of their lives? The impact on the lives of the luckless patients of such registrants is entirely disregarded by HPC and its ambitious law team. It would be heartening to hear that I am mistaken in perceiving Kingsley Napley's public law division to be entirely driven by financial ambition.
Kay Coombes
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