With you every step of the way
Innovative legal programmes
Comprehensive legal support for healthcare professionals
Health and care fitness to practise
We offer affordable legal advice, assistance and representation for health and care professionals facing fitness to practise cases brought by their regulator,
University fitness to practise
Students who are subject to fitness to practise cases by their university can access our dedicated team of FTP lawyers.
Legal education for aspiring lawyers
From QWE skills and opportunities to formal legal qualifications, our innovative legal education programmes help aspiring lawyers to fulfil their career aspirations.
Improving access to justice
Sequentus was established in 2022 by Khaled Hussain-Dupré, Ben Bardell and Sam Wilson, with the aim of making access to robust legal advice and representation more affordable for health and care professionals who are subject to professional discipline proceedings.
Part of our work is funded by innovative legal education programmes and our collaboration with leading UK universities and training providers. We create meaningful work experience opportunities for aspiring lawyers, helping them to develop the skills that they need in order to fulfil their potential.
Specialist lawyers
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Senior Case Lawyer // Director of Legal Education
Khaled is a qualified lawyer whose main area of practice is professional discipline. He is regularly instructed to represent healthcare professionals in fitness to practise proceedings and also leads the…
Benjamin Bardell
Case Lawyer // Director
Ben focuses on case preparation for professional discipline hearings and specialises in the early resolution of regulatory concerns.
Jyoti Kumar
Junior Case Lawyer
Jyoti has a background in regulatory affairs and having completed the Bar training course now represents professional discipline clients in interim hearings and university FTP cases.
Niina Ankers
Junior Case Lawyer // Mediation Lead
Niina is a CMC accredited mediator and leads our mediation team. Having completed the Bar training course Niina represents clients in interim hearings and university FTP cases.
Sam Wilson
Programme Director - FTP
As a practising nurse who is re-training to become a solicitor, Sam understands both facets of regulatory proceedings. She works tirelessly on behalf of clients, focussing on empowering registrants so…
Rebecca March
Assistant Case Lawyer
Rebecca was called to the Bar in 2025, having successfully completed the Bar Training Course LLM, including a pro bono placement with Sequentus. Rebecca now handles a busy caseload of…
News and updates
Outcomes, developments and programme announcements
Over the course of the next six week, students from the University of Sheffield will be joining our fitness to…
admin
Education
D, a registered nurse, admitted to breaching professional boundaries by entering into a relationship with a patient he had treated.…
Laura Strickland
Cases
Rebecca represented a student of dentistry at a one-day hearing covering lack of academic progression and concerns over professionalism. The…
Rebecca March
Cases
K, a registered midwife faced two allegations around a single incident where she was said to have used medication belonging…
Rebecca March
Cases
Our client V, a registered nurse, admitted to turning up to work intoxicated, with the potential for patient harm to…
Ben Bardell
Cases
In 2016, J, a paramedic faced allegations of theft from his employer and was referred to the HCPC. After being…
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Cases
I really appreciate your hard work on my case. It was a great outcome having a no case to answer result and without your support the outcome could have been very different. I forward my appreciation again for all the legal and emotional support.
Nurse
Thank you so much. I would not have been able to achieve this great outcome without you and your team. I am so happy and glad that I can continue with my nursing career. I look forward to our catch up. Again Thank you so much. You have really changed my life for the better.
Healthcare Student
I can't thank you enough for your input and updates in getting my case closed.
Nurse
Thank you for assistance – greatly appreciated. I can now focus on moving forward.
Nurse