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Victoria Rees

Victoria joined Richard Nelson LLP in May 2016 as a Senior Legal Assistant and is now an Associate. Victoria has experience working on a wide range of professional disciplinary cases, defending healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as teachers. Victoria’s expertise includes advising and supporting medical, dental and nursing students in fitness to practise investigations at university level. She also works with teachers facing professional conduct investigations and hearings before the TRA. Victoria has niche expertise in helping pharmacy students appeal against failure in the pre-registration exam. Victoria specialises in drafting written responses to regulatory investigations, seeking to persuade the regulator that a case does not need to be referred to a hearing. She has an excellent track record in persuading case examiners/investigating committees to dispose of a fitness to practise matter short of a full hearing. · Richard Nelson LLP

EnglandProfessional Discipline, Healthcare Regulation

About

Associate at Richard Nelson LLP based in England, who joined the firm in May 2016 as a Senior Legal Assistant. She defends healthcare professionals and teachers in professional disciplinary matters, advises students on fitness to practise investigations, and has niche expertise in pharmacy pre-registration exam appeals and drafting written responses to avoid referral to full hearings.

Practice areas

Professional DisciplineHealthcare RegulationEducation

Office

Expertise

Fitness to practise investigations (medical, dental and nursing students)Defence of healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, paramedics)Representation of teachers in professional conduct investigations and TRA hearingsPharmacy pre-registration exam appealsDrafting written responses to regulatory investigations to secure disposal short of a full hearing

Education

  • Law degree, University of Exeter
  • Bar Vocational Diploma, Nottingham Trent University

Admissions

  • Middle Temple
  • Nottinghamshire Law Society
  • Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers