Alistair Hewitt > Weightmans LLP > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile

Weightmans LLP Offices

Weightmans LLP
VERITY HOUSE
6 CANAL WHARF
LEEDS
LS11 5PS
England
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Alistair Hewitt

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Work Department

Healthcare

Position

Alistair is the Managing Partner of the Leeds office and a Partner in the Healthcare and Regulatory team. He is a highly accomplished practitioner and advocate, representing healthcare professionals and providers in regulatory, disciplinary, coronial and criminal proceedings, investigations and prosecutions. He is frequently instructed by the major medical defence organisations (MDOs), healthcare providers and individual professionals in a wide variety of complex regulatory proceedings and misconduct hearings.

Alistair advises on a range of matters including:

  • Fitness to practise investigations and hearings at the General Medical Council (GMC) and
  • Coroner’s inquests
  • Trust disciplinary investigations and MHPS hearings
  • Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions
  • Performers List investigations and PLDP hearings
  • Post Incident Procedures and Misconduct Hearings
  • CQC reviews
  • First tier tribunal hearings
  • Health and Safety investigations and prosecutions
  • Judicial Reviews

Alistair is an experienced advocate regularly appearing before MPTS and GDC hearings, Coroners Inquests and Criminal Court hearings. He obtained his Higher Rights of Audience to represent clients in all courts in 2005.

Career

Alistair qualified in 1996. He Joined RadcliffesLeBrasseur in 2006 and was made a partner in 2012. He became managing partner of the Leeds office in 2016.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Dispute resolution > Professional discipline

Weightmans LLP‘s ‘exceptional lawyers’ are consistently sought out to represent clients at GMC, GDC and HCPC hearings; and the practice has notable expertise in defending solicitors facing SRA investigations and SDT proceedings. The group also supports law firms during the early stages of complaints. The department further acts in disciplinary proceedings before the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Architects Registration Board (ARB), and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW); and additionally assists the professional regulators of emerging professions such as approved inspectors, in relation to the Construction Industry Council Approved Inspectors Register (CICAIR). William Childs has ‘great abilities’; Sam Flew, Alistair Hewitt and Mike Scherp act in healthcare-related disciplinary investigations; Simon Gomersall ‘always prepares his cases impeccably’; and Anne Green and Michaela Nicholas represent healthcare professionals in disciplinary matters. The team also showcases litigator Susanna Heley, an expert in professional disciplinary work for solicitors; national health sector practice head Richard Jolly; ‘excellent tactician and lawyer’ Ian Sadler; Nigel West, who specialises in defence work for solicitors; and Sadie O’Reilly, who assists with disciplinary proceedings involving dental and medical practitioners. Tom Thurlow, Stewart Duffy, Richard Privett are also key team members.

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