Professional Regulatory & Disciplinary

• Healthcare
• Life Sciences
• Financial Services

Investigations and Fitness to Practice

We work with many of Ireland’s professional regulators to investigate and prosecute allegations against professionals, including professional misconduct, poor professional performance and health-related impairment. Our team guides clients through every stage of preparation and hearing presentation, regularly managing high-complexity matters involving multi-registrant proceedings, historic allegations and vulnerable witnesses. Our lawyers regularly advocate before fitness to practise committees in relation to preliminary applications at call-overs, hearings in which registrants provide undertakings and no-finding applications.

Superior Courts Litigation and Advocacy

We advise and represent clients across the breadth of Superior Courts litigation, including statutory appeals, judicial review proceedings and urgent court applications. Our lawyers regularly conduct their own advocacy before the High Court proceedings, defending regulatory determinations.

Statutory Framework, Drafting and Governance

We regularly draft core governance, procedural, and standards documentation for professional regulatory bodies. Representative work includes:

- Accreditation Materials: Application forms and guidance notes for liquidator accreditation on behalf of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA).

- Secondary Legislation: The statutory instrument governing mandatory professional indemnity cover for liquidators.

- Disciplinary Codes: Procedural rules and disciplinary frameworks for Stock Exchange members.

- Tribunal Guidance: Practice directions and guidance notes on inquiry conduct and standards of professional conduct.

• Acted for the CEO of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) in a statutory fitness to practise hearing involving over 110 allegations, securing a cancellation of registration confirmed by the President of the High Court under section 74 of the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011.
• Acted for the CEO of the NMBI in a statutory fitness to practise inquiry concerning allegations of inappropriate conduct towards a vulnerable resident in a residential care facility, successfully resolving the matter via agreed undertakings and censure.
• Advised the CEO of the NMBI on pre-inquiry negotiations and agreed admissions regarding a multi-allegation inquiry concerning acute patient care, securing agreed undertakings and additional protective conditions.
• Acted for the CEO of the NMBI in a statutory fitness to practise hearing against a male registered nurse regarding clinical care standard failures recorded over a nine-month period, combined with inappropriate social media messaging to a colleague. Successfully secured full admissions prior to the inquiry stage, resolving the proceedings via statutory undertakings and consents.
• Acted for a social worker in relation to two complaints before CORU’s Preliminary Proceedings Committee concerning allegations of misconduct, resulting in the successful dismissal of both complaints at the preliminary stage.
• Acted for an accountancy firm in the resolution of two complaints to its membership body.
• Acted for the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in defence of multiple sets of judicial review proceedings, challenging decisions of the Tribunal.
• Acted for an in-house solicitor in defending misconduct allegations made by a third party interacting with the solicitor’s corporate client, including making several sets of submissions to the LSRA seeking to dismiss the application as inadmissible for being frivolous, vexatious and without substance or foundation.
• Acted for individual solicitors in applying to the High Court to backdate practising certificates.
• Acted for pharmacists dealing with poor professional performance allegations.

• Medical Council
• Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
• Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
• Chartered Accountants Ireland
• Accountancy Firms