Over recent years we have seen the growth of statutory tribunals with panels comprised of a legally qualified chairperson and selected experts to determine a variety of a specialised issues. It is not clear whether this is born from a desire to relieve mainstream courts of workload, or to speed dispute resolution in specialised cases, …
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Laura Paton, Samantha Cox and Jenny Wilde discuss the First Tier (Care Standards) Tribunal, how its processes work and how health and social care providers can prepare themselves for an appeal against enforcement action taken by the Care Quality Commission or Ofsted.
On 9 October 2017, the Tribunal issued an important judgement overturning a decision of CQC to impose an urgent condition on a provider’s registration preventing admissions to a care home without the prior written agreement of the regulator. In Clarendon Care Group v CQC [2017] 3125.EA-MoU, Ridouts acted for the provider. The Tribunal disagreed with …
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