ALEXANDER CHAMBERS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Employee
• Barrister
• Specialist

David Welch is a common-law, employment law, medico-legal and regulatory law specialist advocate. He is also a litigator. David Welch practises in: employment law, crime, general regulation and other civil matters including family and infant settlements. David Welch accepts instructions from solicitors, plus various private and public organisations including a number of NHS Trusts. He is also licensed to accept instructions under the Bar Direct Public Access Scheme. He conducts medico employment law and general employment law cases. He is able to offer workplace training in Employment Law, Dispute Resolution and on investigation/handling of disciplinary and grievances at employer level. David Welch undertakes personal injury law work and clinical negligence law work. He also represents employees injured at work, and those who have claims related to stress at work. David Welch also has a strong practice in debt recovery, particularly in the healthcare sector. David Welch also defends healthcare practitioners before their regulators and represents families in school admissions and exclusion appeals. David Welch also practises in criminal law (inc. serious crimes, fraud, and proceeds of crime recovery matters). David Welch has over 25 years experience handling employment cases including all types of discrimination claims, Unfair/Constructive Dismissal, Redundancy,TUPE, and other contractual claims. He has also undertaken considerable County Court work and regularly appeared at the Crown Court and at the General Medical Council. He is particularly experienced and well known in NHS and medical Academic matters. His caseload has involved complex and lengthy Tribunal work as well as handling numerous workplace disputes including mediation in GP practices. He is an experienced trainer of Human Resources and medical staff. Previously he was a solicitor and spent 13 years working for the British Medical Association where he represented doctor employees and employers in both the public and private sector, locally and nationally. He gained Partner level management experience in a niche City solicitor's firm and was appointed Head of Employment Law. He sat on the Employment Tribunal at London Central and was appointed to the Employment Appeal Tribunal in 2003. He also sat as a Magistrate for ten years. David Welch is also a specialist in debt recovery management, particularly in relation to the recovery of salary over-payments and inappropriate employee salary and expenses claims.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Registered Nurse
• Legal and Regulatory Law Specialist
• Registered Professionals

Lee Gledhill is a common law, medico-legal, and regulatory law specialist advocate. He is also a litigator. Lee Gledhill is a medico-legal and regulatory law specialist advocate. He has acted in numerous medico-legal cases to date, and in more than a thousand professional conduct, fitness to practise and regulatory law cases (including those before the MPTS, GMC, NMC, HPC, HCPC, GDC, GSCC, GOC). He has appeared before most healthcare regulatory tribunals, many non-medical regulators, and in the civil and criminal courts, coroners courts, the High Court, the Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey), and the Court of Appeal. Lee Gledhill has particular expertise in defending senior doctors (Consultants, Registrars, Specialists, Professors, in Fitness to Practise FTP and Interim Orders (IOP) hearings at the General Medical Council (GMC), Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service (MPTS)). He is highly regarded by clients and gets results through working closely with clients in order to maximise a doctors prospects of success. Lee Gledhill has a track record of defending doctors and other registered professionals over a period of more than twenty three years. Lee Gledhill's practice covers many medico-legal areas, including policy development, Data Protection Act (DPA) matters, and legal areas ancilliary to daily working life for clinicians and clinical establishments. He also undertakes Medical Performers List cases (suspensions, removals), representing doctors, Trusts, GP Consortia, and other clinical organisations. Lee Gledhill's practice includes: coroners inquest law, mental health law, medical law, clinical negligence, personal injury, medically related crime, care home law, nhs continuing care fees law, care standards law, public law, employment law, clinical regulation, pharmaceutical law and product liability, licensing law, bio-agricultural law and animal welfare health regulation, police regulation and conduct law, healthcare contracts policies and audits law, trading standards law, general professional regulation (including professional fitness to practise cases) and reputation management in the media Lee Gledhill also writes and lectures on medical and regulatory law, attending clinical symposia from time to time. Lee Gledhill comes to the Bar having had a career as a registered nurse in the NHS and in the private sector. His specialist clinical knowledge and experience give him a clear advantage in medico-legal cases. He is highly experienced in regulatory law and regularly represents practitioners at various disciplinary hearings and appeals, regulatory hearings and appeals in the High Court. He also advises in relation to NHS, CCG and private contractual matters concerning healthcare provision. He also advises on data protection and confidentiality. He also advises the leisure industry. Lee Gledhill regularly represents registered professionals before the following regulators: the General Medical Council (GMC) and Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS): IOP, FTP, Health): senior and junior doctors and medics (including Students, FY1, FY2, ST1, ST2 doctors); the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) nurses and midwives; the Health Professions Council (HPC): arts therapists, biomedical scientists, chiropodists / podiatrists, clinical scientists, dietitians, hearing aid dispensers, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, orthoptists, paramedics, physiotherapists, practitioner psychologists, prosthetists / orthotists, radiographers, speech and language therapists; the General Social Care Council (GSCC): social workers; Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS): vets and veterinary nurses; the General Teaching Council (GTC): teachers; General Dental Council (GDC): dentists; Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA): solicitors; Financial Services Authority (FSA) Fit and Proper Person law - Financial Services and Markets Tribunal Legal Representation; and other non-clinical and clinical regulated professionals. Financial Services Authority (FSA) Applications and Refusals Lee Gledhill also prosecutes and defends police officers in police misconduct hearings, and advises/represents GPs in relation to performance list suspensions, removals, hearings, and appeals. Lee Gledhill provides legal advice and representation in all regulatory forums. Lee Gledhill advises on how to respond to complaints, prepare mitigation, on current legal developments, misconduct issues, impairment issues, fitness to practise evidence and procedure, deficient professional performance issues and lack of competence complaints. He has acted in numerous professional conduct hearings, some cases lasting as long as four or five weeks, involving clinical or professional failures, incompetence, inappropriate personal or sexual conduct, child and adult patient deaths caused or contributed to by errors of judgement or negligence, drug use, dishonesty, fraud, mis-prescribing, a lack of integrity, clinical shortcomings, and activities or conduct incompatible with a profession. Lee Gledhill strictly maintains confidentiality in all cases and has significant experience of defending registrants facing allegations of a sexual nature or concerning sexuality, where greater sensitivity is required. Lee Gledhill also advises on UK and overseas and EU applicant registration issues, fitness to practise issues, restoration to the register following removal, health committee matters, general practice standards, and interim suspension hearings. He also advises on appeals and judicial review from regulators decisions, interpretaion of codes of conduct and practice. Lee Gledhill, over more than twelve years, has represented several hundred practitioners before their regulators. He is considered by many to be a leading expert in the field of regulatory defence law. He also undertakes PCT Medical Performers List cases (including suspension and removals hearings) and independent legal chair work. Lee Gledhill also acts for GP practices, hospitals, nursing and care home owners in Care Quality Commission (CQC), and Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW CSSIW) matters, including Notices of Cancellation of Registration appeals to the Care Standards Tribunal (CST), and emergency home closures before a justice of the peace (magistrates courts). He also represents practitioners referred to the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children Barring lists (SVGA), Protection of Vulnerable Adult lists (PoVA) and Protection of Children Act lists (PoCA), List 99, CCfW. Lee Gledhill advises on challenges to NHS primary health care needs assessments, NHS continuing healthcare assessments, total care nursing fees. He also advises on Registered Nursing Care Contributions (RNCC), as well as challenges to the NHS via the NHS complaints system and the NHS Ombudsman. He also advises on appeals within NHS procedures, and appeals and judicial reviews in the High Court. Additionally, Lee Gledhill represents the interests of public bodies and commercial organisations regulated by Ofsted, such as schools, children's homes, nurseries and child minders, in challenges of Ofsted reports and Ofsted notices of cancellation, and Ofsted appeals. Lee Gledhill also advises on and appears in cases related to Special Educational Needs claims for funding and support. Lee Gledhill has considerable experience in clinical negligence and personal injury work, acting for both claimants and defendants. He has acted in many personal injury and clinical negligence cases over the years including intensive care unit failures, surgical repair errors, cosmetic surgery errors, pressure sore injury causation - resulting from neglect, health and safety failures (for example: hot water mixer failures) and road traffic accidents (RTAs), all leading to serious injuries. He has represented members of the public, various professionals, local authorities, hospitals, public and private care establishments, in legal actions. His own clinical expertise and experience is an asset in such cases. Lee Gledhill advises on all aspects of medical law and mental health law, health policy and ethics, including issues of consent, detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 & 2007, mental capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, withdrawal of treatment, vegetative state clinical decisions, and care of the terminally ill. Lee Gledhill provides advice and advocacy for applications in the Court of Protection and appears before Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs), and the Court of Protection. Lee Gledhill provides Independent Legal Chairing Services for healthcare and other organisations. Lee Gledhill advises on Public Law Challenges to decisions of public bodies, including local authorities, national bodies and government departments, under the Human Rights Act 1988, and via judicial review. Also misfeasance in public office claims, claims for damages and costs. Lee Gledhill provides advice to local authorities undergoing a Serious Case Review in relation to the death of a child, an elderly person, or other individual in their care or ottherwise under local authority responsibility. Independent co-authorship of Serious Case Reviews available, by arrangement, with Paula Clements of Counsel. Lee Gledhill also defends in criminal (medical) manslaughter trials at the Old Bailey and other Crown Courts, particularly where there is significant medical evidence, and in trials where top level clinical consultants and academics are to give evidence. Lee Gledhill is highly competent in cross-examining clinical experts. Lee Gledhill advises on Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks, and challenges to the information recorded, for all health and other professionals working with vulnerable adults and children, who require special ISA and CRB clearance. He also advises and represents doctors and other clinicians in relation to other criminal allegations, including gross negligence manslaughter, sexual assault, domestic violence, speeding and road traffic offences. Lee Gledhill also acts in large asset proceeds of crime confiscation cases. Lee Gledhill writes on medico-legal issues, with a focus on nursing neglect, pressure sore cases, coroners inquests, and the patient's capacity to consent. In 2005 he won first prize in the British Journal of Nursing Awards, for a published medico-legal article on the prevention of pressure sores and legal implications for nursing neglect. Lee Gledhill also lectures on medical law, coronial law, clinical negligence, care standards and general regulatory law. Lee Gledhill is the CEO/Head of Alexander Chambers and our practice divisions.

Job Titles:

• Barrister
• Legal and Regulatory Law Specialist
• Qualified Nurse and Midwife

Penny Maudsley is a medico-legal and regulatory law specialist advocate. She is also a litigator. Penny Maudsley has represented clients at all tribunal levels including the High Court, and advises on appeals and judicial review proceedings. Penny Maudsley came to the Bar having had a career as a nurse and a midwife within the NHS. Her clinical knowledge and experience of both nursing and midwifery are useful tools for her medical and regulatory law practice at the Bar. Penny recently appeared before the GMC in an obstetric case where her clinical expertise was particularly helpful. She acts in GMC, MPTS, NMC, HPC, Ofsted, GDC and other regulatory cases. Penny also practises in registrations law. Penny Maudsley is able to accept public access work or receive instructions via a solicitor.