Victoria Shehadeh
Victoria’s experience spans regulatory work, criminal work and statutory inquiries.
Victoria has a keen interest in regulatory work, with a particular focus on professional discipline of healthcare professionals. She enjoys a busy case load which includes acting for both healthcare regulators and for professionals who face the daunting prospect of appearing before their regulator. When defending healthcare professionals, Victoria provides advice at the early stages of proceedings in order to secure the best results for clients in what can be a lengthy and difficult process.
Victoria is also regularly requested to act as a case presenter.
Victoria is experienced in handling sensitive cases, multi-registrant cases, cases involving sexually inappropriate behaviour, dishonesty and mismanagement of care homes.
Victoria has served on the counsel team to the Undercover Policing Inquiry since 2018.
Victoria defends and prosecutes both in the Crown Courts and Magistrates’ Courts.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2016
Membership
- Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
- Howard League for Penal Reform
- Women in Criminal Law
- Criminal Bar Association
Qualifications
- BA Law (2013)
- BPTC (2015)
Education
- University of Cambridge (2013)
- Kaplan Law School (2014)
3 Contributions by Victoria Shehadeh
PRACTICE NOTES
General Osteopathic Council fitness to practise: complaints, investigations, interim orders, hearings, sanctions, voluntary removal, reviews and appeals (United Kingdom)
Who is the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC)?
The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) is a corporate body established by the Osteopaths Act 1993 (OA 1993) with the overall role of advancing and overseeing the profession of osteopathy, with an overarching purpose, first and foremost, of protecting the public by:
protecting, promoting and upholding the public’s health, safety and wellbeing
promoting and sustaining public trust in the osteopathic profession, and
promoting and preserving appropriate professional standards and conduct among its members
This Practice Note outlines and provides guidance on GOsC fitness to practise processes, procedures and proceedings, inquiries and investigations, and applications for restoration to the Register. It is a criminal offence to call yourself an ‘osteopath’ without being registered with the GOsC. For clarity and ease of reference, this Practice Note should be read alongside Practice Notes: Common principles in fitness to practise proceedings and Criminal proceedings and convictions in healthcare regulatory proceedings, and with the specific Practice Note for each of the following healthcare regulators:
the General Medical Council—fitness to practise proceedings
the General Pharmaceutical Council—fitness to practise proceedings
General Optical Council—fitness to practise proceedings
the Health and Care Professions Council—fitness to practise proceedings
Nursing and Midwifery Council Proceedings—fitness to...
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PRACTICE NOTES
Healthcare regulators: common principles, procedure, evidence, interim orders and sanctions in fitness to practise proceedings
This Practice Note seeks to summarise the leading case law and shared principles that arise in fitness to practise (FtP) proceedings before most healthcare regulators’ FtP panels. It sets out the common procedural phases, including investigation and the admissibility of evidence, the scope of case examiners’ powers, interim orders, and recurring themes such as dishonesty and racist language. The term ‘registrant’ refers to the regulated professional who is the subject of FtP proceedings. It should be read alongside Practice Note: Criminal proceedings and convictions in healthcare regulatory proceedings and the separate Practice Note for each regulator listed below:
General Dental Council—fitness to practise proceedings
General Medical Council—fitness to practise proceedings
General Optical Council—fitness to practise proceedings
General Pharmaceutical Council—fitness to practise proceedings
Health and Care Professions Council—fitness to practise proceedings
Nursing and Midwifery Council—fitness to practise proceedings
Social Work England—fitness to practise proceedings
This note applies to the healthcare regulators overseen by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). For additional reading on the PSA, see Practice Note: Professional Standards Authority.
Overview of fitness to practice proceedings
Language and titles may differ between regulators but, broadly, there...
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PRACTICE NOTES
NMC Fitness to Practise Proceedings: A Lawyers’ Guide to Referrals, Investigations, Case Examiners, Undertakings, Interim Orders, Hearings, Sanctions, Appeals, Restoration and Fraudulent/Incorrect Entry
Who is the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is a statutory corporate body established by the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001. Its general function is to promote standards of education, training, conduct and performance for those it regulates, with the overriding objective of safeguarding the public.
All nurses, nursing assistants and midwives must be registered with the NMC, whether roles are temporary or permanent, paid or voluntary, across the NHS or the independent sector.
The NMC’s role is to protect, promote and maintain:
the health, safety and well-being of the public
public confidence in the professions it regulates
professional standards and conduct for Registrants
This Practice Note offers a guide to Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise proceedings, investigations, and applications for restoration to the Register.
The NMC regulates:
nurses
midwives
and, from 28 January 2019, nursing associates
The nursing associate role is overseen under the same regulatory framework the NMC uses for registered nurses and midwives. The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, SI 2002/253, was amended on 28 January 2019 to include nursing associates in respect of the NMC’s...
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