The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal is often faced with cases of solicitors suffering from co-morbid alcoholism and depression, but what help do these professionals get to overcome their problems? Solicitor Jonathan Goodliffe, writing in this week’s NLJ, says that the tribunal’s procedures do not encourage recovery. The General Medical Council takes a different approach. Its disciplinary process identifies doctors whose misconduct arises from health problems and deals with them under a distinct procedure. It also runs a Practitioners Health Programme focusing on conditions such as alcoholism and mental health.
27 October 2016
Alcoholism & depression in the profession
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NEWS
The controversial Courts and Tribunals Bill has passed its second reading by 304 votes to 203, despite concerted opposition from the legal profession
The presumption of parental involvement is to be abolished, the Lord Chancellor David Lammy has confirmed
A highly experienced chartered legal executive has been prevented from representing her client in financial remedies proceedings, in a case that highlights the continued fallout from Mazur
Plans to commandeer 50%-75% of the interest on lawyers’ client accounts to fund the justice system overlook the cost and administrative burden of this on small and medium law firms, CILEX has warned
Lawyers have been asked for their views on proposals to change the penalties for assaulting a police officer
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