Amie Roadnight

Solicitor

London
Professional Discipline, Regulatory
020 7484 7622

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Amie is a solicitor in the Professional Discipline, Regulatory and Crime team in London, having qualified in 2018. Prior to qualification, Amie spent a number of years with Hempsons’, gaining a broad range of experience in regulatory law and professional discipline.

Amie’s practice primarily involves defending health care professionals facing fitness to practise proceedings before their regulator and advising on appeals of decisions made by the Care Quality Commission before the First Tier Tribunal. Amie also has experience of judicial review proceedings, NHS Trust investigations as well as having a clinical negligence litigation practice.

Main areas of expertise

Regulatory defence
Clinical negligence
First Tier Tribunal appeals
Judicial review

The clients she works with

Defence organisations
Individual healthcare professionals
Other professionals

Qualifications

Postgraduate Diploma in Law (LPC) 2016 (Distinction)
LLB Law, 2014 (First Class Honours)

Memberships

Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL)

Publications

How regulation has been impacted by the current coronavirus pandemic, Independent Practitioner Today

Hempsons’ crime team works fast to minimise client’s sentence
7 April 2021
Amie Roadnight and Adam Smith of Hempsons’ crime team represented a client accused of driving whilst almost 4 times over the limit for cocaine.

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Capacity to consent to dental treatment: Re TE [2020] 5 WLUK 300
28 May 2020
The judgment of Mrs Justice Knowles last week illustrates potential difficulties dentists may face if a patient lacks capacity.

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How regulation has been impacted by the current coronavirus pandemic
10 May 2020
This article will consider what is being expected of doctors who may not have been working in the NHS before the pandemic, how regulation has been amended to provide for this unprecedented situation, and how a doctor’s fitness to practise may still be investigated.

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Record keeping – how to avoid criticism by a critical eye
13 April 2019
Record keeping is a subject widely discussed, the subject of much advice and guidance, but regularly got wrong. It is important that records are accurate, not only to ensure safe and appropriate patient care, but also as a safeguard for you if things go wrong. After all, your records are (or should be!) a first hand, contemporaneous account of your appointment with the patient and therefore, arguably, the most reliable source of evidence as to what happened.

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Employment Newsbrief Summer 2018 now available!
11 June 2018
Welcome to the Summer edition of the Hempsons’ Employment Newsbrief, a round-up of some of the hot legal topics in the Employment sector.

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Hincks v Sense Network
9 June 2018
It is commonly accepted that when a person applies for a job, they will usually be asked to provide a reference from their previous employer. By the same token, employers are usually willing to provide a reference for an employee leaving their employment and doing so is standard practice.

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When does notice take effect?
4 May 2018
The Supreme Court handed down a judgment last week in the case of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood confirming that where a contract is silent on when notice is deemed to be given, notice takes effect when it is actually received by the employee and they have read it, or had a reasonable opportunity to do so.

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Newsflash: Updated GMC Guidance on Confidentiality 2017
26 April 2017
On 25 April 2017, the updated GMC Guidance, Confidentiality: Good Practice in Handling Patient Information (“the Guidance”) comes into effect

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Indemnifiers and insurers

NHS

Amie Roadnight

Amie Roadnight

Main areas of expertise

The clients she works with

Qualifications

Memberships

Publications

NewsView all

Hempsons’ crime team works fast to minimise client’s sentence

Capacity to consent to dental treatment: Re TE [2020] 5 WLUK 300

How regulation has been impacted by the current coronavirus pandemic

Record keeping – how to avoid criticism by a critical eye

Employment Newsbrief Summer 2018 now available!

Hincks v Sense Network

When does notice take effect?

Newsflash: Updated GMC Guidance on Confidentiality 2017

Sectors

Services