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Shannett Thompson

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. · Kingsley Napley LLP

EnglandRegulatory, Healthcare

About

Partner at Kingsley Napley LLP (joined 2011; became a Partner in 2020) who specialises in regulatory work, including healthcare investigations and defending registrants through the fitness to practise process. She also advises on education-sector matters such as potential teacher prohibitions and student misconduct, acts for regulators and individuals as an advocate before interim order and conduct and competence committees, contributes to legal publications, and is a diversity and inclusion advocate (Chambers Outstanding Contribution Award 2021; Judges' Choice Award – Women for Africa 2022).

Practice areas

RegulatoryHealthcareEducationInvestigationsProfessional Discipline

Office

Expertise

Healthcare regulatory investigationsFitness to practise / professional discipline for doctors, nurses and therapistsRepresentation of regulatorsEducation sector: teacher prohibition and student misconduct (academic and sexual)Diversity & inclusion advocacyMedia and publication commentary