Louis Weston acts for Patricia Annon in her successful appeal against NMC Conduct and Competence Committee decision

24th July 2017

Louis Weston acted for Patricia Annon in her successful appeal against a decision of the NMC’s Conduct and Competence Committee to strike her from the Register.

The Court allowed the appeal on the grounds that to strike off a midwife who had a condition precedent to her return to practice that she was actively seeking to comply with was unjustified. Importantly the Court indicated obiter that the Committee in future should set a long stop time for compliance with such orders, see Annon v NMC  [2017] EWHC 1879 (Admin).