Regulatory Defence Solicitors for Regulated Professionals
Defending Healthcare and Legal Professionals with Insider Knowledge
Our case leads have prosecuted at the CPS, the SRA, the GDC and the GMC. We know how the case against you is being built, because we used to build it — the first letter, the question that follows it, and the point where someone decides whether this closes or goes to a hearing. Where we haven't sat on your regulator's side of the file, we've defended enough of its cases to know how it runs, and we'll tell you which of the two you're getting on the first call.
Fixed fee
Advice from £600 plus VAT
The first 30 minutes are free.
DBS
Had a 'minded to bar' letter or a DBS referral?
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Deadline
Got a date to reply by?
DBS, regulator or hearing: tell us when you call and we'll work to your deadline.
Your call is confidential. We never contact your employer or your regulator without your instruction.
Most people ring us in a break at work. If you can't talk freely, tell us a time that suits and a solicitor will call you back then. Or send us the letter and we'll reply by email. Our phones are answered day and night by a real person, who will take the details. We're not going to pretend a solicitor is sitting by the phone at 3am.
Which letter have you had?
Pick the one that matches and go straight to it.
DBS
A letter from the DBS
A "minded to bar" letter, an employer referral, a barring appeal, or police information on an enhanced certificate. For care workers, support workers, teachers and drivers.
Go to DBS & criminal records ↓
Fitness to practise
A letter from your healthcare regulator
HCPC, GMC, GDC, NMC, GPhC or GOC investigations, interim orders, final hearings and restoration.
Go to healthcare regulators ↓
SRA
A letter from the SRA
Investigations, requests for an explanation and SDT referrals, led by Tamara Krupski-David.
Go to SRA & SDT ↓
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Who used to prosecute, and where
The people who lead your defence, and the side of the file they used to sit on.
GDC and GPhC
Founder, Managing Director and Solicitor
Former Chief Prosecutor at the General Dental Council. He also advised the General Pharmaceutical Council on strategy for its most complex cases.
SRA, GDC and GMC
Senior Solicitor
Former Head of Legal & Enforcement at the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Before that, close to eight years at the General Dental Council, latterly as a Senior Lawyer leading fitness to practise investigations. She has also served at the General Medical Council.
Crown Prosecution Service
Senior Solicitor
Has prosecuted for the Crown Prosecution Service, and has investigated and presented cases for regulators including the GMC, NMC, GDC and SRA.
General Medical Council
Senior Solicitor
Former prosecuting lawyer in the General Medical Council's fitness to practise directorate.
Recent outcomes
Three recent cases, from three different regulators.
GMC and MPTS
A doctor facing a sanction hearing after findings of misconduct and deficient performance.
Erasure avoided
HCPC
A practitioner psychologist facing dishonesty allegations.
No case to answer
GDC
A dentist investigated after a complaint by a practice partner.
Closed at case examiner stage
Every case turns on its own facts. Past outcomes don't guarantee future ones. Read the regulatory defence case studies.
86 years
combined experience, prosecuting and defending
Hundreds
of cases overseen in that time
Since 2025
an SRA-regulated firm
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Who we help
We help doctors, nurses, dentists, solicitors and other regulated professionals, and care workers, support workers, teachers and drivers, whose regulator, employer, the police or the DBS have written to them. Find the body on your letter. Whatever the letterhead, the case runs the same way — an allegation, a deadline, and your registration, your liberty and your career all moving at once. We take all of it, on one strategy.
DBS & Criminal Records
Anyone whose record is standing between them and the work they want to do
- ✓“Minded to bar” representations to the DBS
- ✓DBS barring appeal to the Upper Tribunal
- ✓Criminal records deletion — cautions, warnings and police records
- ✓What appears on an enhanced certificate, and disputing it
- ✓Criminal defence where a conviction would end the career
- ✓Employer referrals to the DBS, before the letter arrives
- ✓Police information on an enhanced certificate
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Healthcare Regulators
Fitness to practise solicitors for GMC and MPTS (including MHPS investigations by your trust), NMC, GDC, GPhC, HCPC and GOC - and NHS Performers List matters
- ✓Fitness to practise, from first referral to final hearing
- ✓MHPS investigations and exclusions, before they become a GMC referral
- ✓Interim order hearings that stop you earning
- ✓Inquests and inquiries, including Article 2 inquests
- ✓NHS Performers List suspension and removal
- ✓Employer disciplinaries with a referral standing behind them
- ✓Restoration and registration appeals
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SRA & SDT
SRA investigation solicitors acting for solicitors, law firms, COLPs and COFAs, and non-qualified staff. Led by Tamara Krupski-David, former Head of Legal & Enforcement at the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
- ✓SRA investigations, from first explanation to referral
- ✓Defence at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
- ✓Practising conditions, restrictions and section 43 orders
- ✓Criminal proceedings running alongside the regulatory case
- ✓Firm disciplinaries, before they turn into a referral
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BSB & Bar Tribunals
Barristers, pupils and chambers
- ✓BSB investigations and enforcement decisions
- ✓Representation at Disciplinary Tribunals
- ✓Interim suspension and restrictions on practice
- ✓Self-reports and reporting obligations
- ✓Criminal and chambers proceedings run in parallel
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Other Regulators
FCA, CQC and any other body with the power to investigate you, your firm or your registration
- ✓FCA enforcement, Senior Managers Regime referrals and prohibition orders
- ✓Interim suspensions and restrictions, whoever has imposed them
- ✓CQC registration, warning notices and prosecutions
- ✓Criminal, employment and regulatory proceedings run together
- ✓Early strategic advice, before the regulator has built its case
- ✓Self-reports, and what you are actually obliged to disclose
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Another regulator investigating you?
We also act before the Teaching Regulation Agency and Social Work England, ICAEW and ACCA, the SIA, the Gambling Commission, RICS and ARB, and at police misconduct hearings. We'll tell you on the first call whether your case lead has prosecuted for that body or defended before it.
We act for the practitioner, not the patient. We don't take clinical negligence claims or complaints about a practitioner.
You decide how much help you want
Four levels. Start with the smallest one that answers your question.
Level 1
A second opinion
A solicitor reads your letter and tells you where you stand and what to do next.
Fixed-fee advice from £600 plus VAT
Level 2
A route map
The whole proceedings set out stage by stage, with a remediation strategy.
Fixed fee, quoted before work starts
Level 3
Written submissions
A full "minded to bar" response, or submissions to close a regulator's case.
Typically around £3,000 plus VAT, more or less depending on complexity
Level 4
Full representation
We run the case for you, from the first reply to the final hearing.
Your choice: fixed fee, a fee capped at each stage, or hourly rates from £250 to £425 plus VAT
We don't offer legal aid or no win no fee. Check whether your insurance or union cover pays before you pay us. Payment plans are available. See our pricing.
Here's something worth knowing before you reply.
Your regulator is predictable.
Not always. Not in every case. But far more often than you'd think.
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The letter they send first.
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The questions they ask second.
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The exact point in the process where someone decides whether this is "no case to answer" or a referral to a hearing.
There is a pattern. It repeats.
We know the pattern because we used to run it. Between us, this team has sat on the regulator's side of the file at the CPS, the SRA, the GDC and the GMC, opening the investigations, building the cases, and deciding which ones went the distance.
Now we sit on the other side of the table.
Regulation Resolution was founded by Jonathan Meadows, former Chief Prosecutor at the General Dental Council, on one idea: your defence should be led by someone who has prosecuted. Where your case lead hasn't prosecuted for your regulator, they have defended before it, and we'll tell you which on the first call.
Not "worked alongside". Not "advised on".
Prosecuted.
That's the reason the firm exists.
Your call is confidential. We never contact your employer or your regulator without your instruction.
What our clients say
Why instruct Regulation Resolution as your regulatory defence solicitors?
Regulation Resolution is a specialist defence firm founded by a former Chief Prosecutor at the General Dental Council. We're a single point of defence for regulated professionals — registration, liberty and career handled together, by people who have sat on the other side of the file.
We know how cases are built
We defend cases knowing how they are built. Our case leads have prosecuted for regulators themselves, so we can anticipate how a regulator is likely to approach your matter instead of reacting to it.
It is rarely just one case
And most regulatory cases aren't one case. They're three arriving at once — the regulator investigating, your employer running a disciplinary, and often a police matter, an inquest or a DBS referral behind both of them.
One team, one strategy
Run separately, they can work against each other. What you said to the employer turns up at the regulator. The caution you accepted to close the criminal matter quietly can be what ends your registration eighteen months later. We run all seven areas under one roof, on one strategy, with one team who speak to each other every day.
How will you benefit from our service?
✓Early strategic advice
The first letter you send shapes everything after it. We advise on that response, your statement and what evidence goes in — before the regulator has finished building its case rather than after.
✓Challenge removals or suspensions
An interim suspension stops your income while the investigation runs, and investigations run for months. We challenge them. Every day counts here, so if you're at risk, speak to us this week.
✓Minimise criminal investigation fallout
Release under investigation, bail conditions, a caution, a charge — each one carries a regulatory consequence. We advise on both at once, because they decide each other.
✓Stop a dismissal becoming a referral
Some employers may be legally bound to refer a dismissed practitioner. We run the disciplinary with the regulatory consequence already in view.
✓Inquest representation
Findings at an inquest can follow a clinician for years. We're there to make sure the record is accurate and fair, and doesn't leave an evidence trail that turns into a referral.
✓Criminal records deletion
Spent convictions and police warnings can block initial registration, trigger enhanced DBS checks, or require disclosure to regulators. Where a record can be deleted, we apply to have it removed.
✓DBS barring challenges
Many healthcare practitioners don’t realise they can challenge a ‘minded to bar’ letter. Once barred by the DBS, you can’t work in regulated activity in health or social care. Early representations can stop a bar being imposed. If you are already barred, we can advise on an appeal.
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What's actually stopping you picking up the phone?
✓Won't it probably blow over?
Sometimes it does. Plenty of cases close with no case to answer. But that outcome is likelier when the first response was the right one — and the first response is the one you make before you know how serious this is. Many clients come back to us months later and instruct us then. That is months lost in preparing your defence.
✓Do I need a solicitor if I haven't done anything wrong?
Neither have many of the people we act for. Regulators don't investigate guilt, they investigate allegations — and a good defence still has to be built, evidenced and put properly. Being innocent is the start of the work, not the end of it.
✓Isn't my union or my employer handling it?
Your rep is on your side. Your employer is not, and may be obliged to refer you if they dismiss you. Those are two different conversations and neither one is a regulatory defence. Keep them both. Bring us in alongside.
✓I've already replied to them. Is it too late?
No. We start from there. It's the most common thing we see and it's rarely fatal — but what you've already said shapes what you can say next, so the sooner someone reads it with a prosecutor's eye, the more room there is to work with.
✓Can I afford a specialist?
Ask what you're comparing it against. You're weighing a fee against the income of every year you'd still have practised. Fixed-fee advice starts at £600 plus VAT. Written submissions are typically around £3,000 plus VAT. For the rest of the case, you choose how you pay: a fixed fee, a fee capped at each stage, or hourly rates from £250 to £425 plus VAT for a solicitor, with paralegal support from £150 plus VAT. Payment plans are available. See our fees for regulatory defence. We'll tell you on the first call what yours is likely to cost, and whether your indemnity or union cover already pays for it.
✓Will instructing a solicitor make it bigger than it is?
Instructing a solicitor doesn't escalate a regulatory investigation. It's the most ordinary thing a professional in your position does, and it signals you're taking it seriously — exactly the impression you want to give. We know. We used to be them.
✓I've already got a criminal solicitor. Do I need you as well?
Keep them. But ask what accepting a caution does to your registration. Criminal advice needs the regulatory consequence in view, and that's the part we add.
✓My employer says they'll refer me. Is it too early to call?
No. This is the best time. What you say in your employer's investigation is usually the first thing the regulator or the DBS reads, so take advice before you give your account, not after the referral has gone in.
✓I've already been barred or struck off. Is it too late?
Not necessarily. There are routes back: an appeal, a review of a DBS bar, or an application for restoration to the register. Each has its own time limit and some are short, so tell us the date on the decision when you call.
✓Do you offer legal aid or no win no fee?
No. But check your insurance first. Most policies, other than those that come with a union, give you the right to choose your own solicitor. The firm your insurer appoints will usually put juniors on your case, overseen by a partner. We are partner-led only, and we will often act at your insurer's rates, so it costs you nothing extra. Use your right to choose and the same policy puts a partner on your case. If you are paying yourself, fixed fees and payment plans are available. See our fees for regulatory defence.
✓Can someone call on my behalf?
Yes. A partner, relative, colleague or union rep can make the first call and send us the letter. Before we advise or act, we'll need to speak to you and have your instruction.
✓Do you cover the whole of the UK?
Yes for regulatory cases. For DBS barring we act in England, Wales and Northern Ireland only.
Thirty minutes. No charge. No obligation.
You'll get an honest view of how serious this is, what your regulator is likely to do next, and what your options are this week rather than next month. If you don't need us, we'll tell you that too — it happens more often than you'd expect.
If you do instruct us, you'll know the cost first. Fixed-fee advice starts at £600 plus VAT. For the rest of the case, you choose how you pay: a fixed fee, a fee capped at each stage, or hourly rates from £250 to £425 plus VAT. See our fees for regulatory defence.
Call us, or send us the letter. Tell us the date you have to reply by and when you can talk.
A solicitor calls you back the next working day, at the time you chose. Thirty minutes, no charge.
You get a written quote before any work starts. No obligation, and no hard feelings if you go elsewhere. We won't keep chasing you: frankly, we need that time to help other clients.
Book a free 30-minute call: 0208 088 5161
Your call is confidential. We never contact your employer or your regulator without your instruction.
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Regulation Resolution Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales (Company number: 15204430) | Registered address 81 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A1DD | VAT number: 496453938
Regulation Resolution is a recognised body law practice, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA number 8010512).
Our solicitors are members of the Law Society and the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL). Jonathan Meadows serves on the advisory board of the Regulatory Justice Foundation.