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Supreme Court considers double jeopardy in professional disciplinary proceedings
Practice Area: Professional Indemnity
Sector: Business services
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
Published: 10 March 2011
Law Firm: Barlow Lyde & Gilbert
Overview
The professional indemnity market will welcome the recent decision of the Supreme Court in R (on the application of Coke-Wallis) v ICAEW, in which the Law Lords upheld the principle of res judicata and prevented the ICAEW, the accountants regulator, from bringing disciplinary proceedings twice in relation to the same misconduct by an accountant.
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert outlines the case leading up to the Supreme Court ruling.
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