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Kingsley Napley LLP Offices
20 Bonhill Street
London
EC2A 4DN
England
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Shannett Thompson
Work Department
Regulatory
Position
Shannett has a varied client base which consists of regulators, individual registrants, entrepreneurs, care homes and other businesses.
In the healthcare sector, she is regularly instructed to conduct investigations on behalf of regulatory bodies in relation to allegations of a serious nature. In respect of individual registrants, the majority of her defence work is on behalf of doctors, nurses and therapists relating to all the stages of the fitness to practise process from initial complaint to appeal. She also appears as an advocate before both interim order and conduct and competence committees on behalf of her regulator clients.
In the education section, she acts in respect of cases where a decision may be made to prohibit teachers from the profession. She also advises and represents students in respect of investigations, largely relating to academic and sexual misconduct.
Shannett has contributed to publications by LexisNexis, Lexology, Cannabis Wealth, the Journal of Professional Negligence and City Wealth Magazine. She is an avid commentator and has features in newspapers and blogs.
Shannett is also a diversity and inclusion advocate, winning the Chambers Outstanding Contribution Award 2021 – Diversity and Inclusion Private Practice and Judges Choice Award – Women for Africa 2022.
Career
Shannett qualified in 2007 having completed her training in-house within a legal services department of a NHS Trust. She joined Kingsley Napley in 2011 and became a Partner in 2020.
Memberships
Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Private Prosecutors’ Association (PPA)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Public sector > Education: individuals
Experienced in assistance in disciplinary proceedings, allegations of sexual misconduct, academic appeals, plagiarism, and harassment, Kingsley Napley LLP‘s education practice draws from the firm’s strengths on regulatory, criminal law and public law to assist students and their parents, as well as academic staff in a wide range of education matters. The department is led by Shannett Thompson who is an expert for education and healthcare and is experienced in relation to sexual misconduct allegations. Key members of the team are public lawyer Sophie Kemp, Matthew Hardcastle, who is an expert in police investigations involving child suspects, and criminal litigators Sandra Paul
and David Sleight .
London > Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
(Next Generation Partners)Kingsley Napley LLP’s defence team covers legal services, accountancy and finance regulations, as well as fire and health and safety-related matters. Appointed regulatory team head in November 2023, Melinka Berridge acts for major regulators from the education and healthcare sectors; Julie Norris assists partners, other legal service providers and UK law firms with investigations and SRA enforcements; Julie Matheson specialises in advising professional services firms, predominantly in the accountancy and built environment sectors; Shannett Thompson has the ‘ability to put nervous clients at ease‘; and Iain Miller and Jessica Clay are praised for their ‘technical expertise, sound client care and tactical acumen’. The practice further comprises Hannah Eales, an adviser to both regulatory bodies and those who appear before them; Laura Ryan, a prosecutor of individuals for regulators; Lucy Williams; who specialises in regulatory law, primarily in the legal and financial sectors; Sarah Atkinson, who acts in range of architectural cases and complex clinical matters; Clare Hastie, who investigates and prepares fitness to practise cases on behalf of regulatory bodies; and the ‘absolute standout’ Kathryn Sheridan. Other names to note are Charlotte Judd, Ian Ko and Louise Murphy-King. Former regulatory head Nicola Hill departed the firm in March 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Professional discipline London > Dispute resolution
- Education: individuals London > Public sector
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Costs lawyers
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Family: mediation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Real estate > Residential property
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Employment > Employers
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > ESG