• Senior Management and Board expertise
• Face to face training for fitness to practise panellists
• Fitness to practise and regulatory expertise
• Progression of backlogs, blocked or slow investigations
• Expert systemic and individual case reviews
• Regulatory, civil and criminal legal expertise
• Inspirational coaching and mentoring to their managers, teams and individuals
Barry Baines, a Member of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL), is a Consultant Solicitor with Keystone Law .
As a Solicitor Advocate in England & Wales, and an Attorney at Law for the State of New York, he displays enormous hands-on knowledge of professional regulation as well as extensive experience of the court structure in England & Wales and the European Court of Justice including most judicial and quasi-judicial tribunals which adds to his wide and detailed involvement in the British parliamentary process and the prosecution of crime.
Winner of the ARDL Mentor of the Year Award 2022, he has undertaken numerous assignments particularly for major public sector organisations including risk assessment reports, face to face training for fitness to practise panellists, training regulation officers and appointing external inspectors, repairing and renewing broken processes, providing expert case analysis and advice and reducing backlogs as well as mentoring, coaching and managing executives and other individuals.
He founded, developed and managed a substantial business in legal services with a turnover of £millions.
Major clients have included Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority; General Medical Council; General Social Care Council; Nursing & Midwifery Council; General Dental Council; Solicitors Regulation Authority; Crown Prosecution Service; Costs Lawyer Standards Board.
He receives instructions via Keystone Law (020 3319 3700) from healthcare or legal professionals and regulatory bodies.
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