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Sequentus - fitness to practise specialists
  • Pro bono opportunities and law clinics
Sequentus - fitness to practise lawyers

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Pro bono fitness to practise
Helping nurses and midwives who are subject to professional misconduct proceedings by their regulator
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Get qualifying work experience
Qualifying work experience opportunities, skills training and free SQE preparation course
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Pro bono criminal appeals
Helping individuals to appeal a conviction for a serious criminal offence or make an application to the CCRC
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Our vision

We work with students, universities and corporate partners to inspire ‘future lawyers’ not only to participate in our programmes and assist our clients, but to join us in creating and sharing pro bono and learning experiences as an integral part of their own journey. Working alongside the clinic team, as well as junior and senior practitioners our goal is to help students carve out their own unique pathway into the law, based on merit and demonstrating a positive and lasting contribution to pro bono and access to justice.

Everyone in the Sequentus team understands the challenges of making that leap from law student to practitioner. We’re all working on alternative routes into practice, whether it’s changing careers or straight from a degree. Whether we’re aspiring barristers or solicitors, our common goal is to share the opportunities we are creating as a team along the way. That’s what we’re doing next.

Our team

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 development of our legal education programmes.
Ben Bardell
Junior Case Lawyer

Ben focuses on case preparation for professional discipline hearings and specialises in the early resolution of regulatory concerns.
Georgina Maxa
Georgina is a qualified lawyer with a background in handling contentious matters. As well as managing her own portfolio of professional discipline cases, Georgina supervises and trains aspiring solicitors as part of our legal education programmes.
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 that they can make informed choices about their case.

NEWS

Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréMisconduct
We recently defended a healthcare professional facing misconduct charges including dishonesty and intentionally contributing to the death of a patient. During the course of a four-week hearing many of the charges were deemed to be no case to answer and on the remaining charges we secured a caution order as the final outcome.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréSexual misconduct interim order hearing
We were instructed at the last minute to defend a healthcare professional in an interim order hearing relating to sexual misconduct. We successfully challenged the quality of evidence being advanced by the regulator, resulting in no interim order or restrictions being applied.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréMisconduct
We provided legal advice and support to a healthcare professional in a case involving alleged misconduct and the death of a patient, with a five week hearing. We represented the client in parts of the substantive hearing of their case, resulting in a finding that their fitness to practise was not impaired.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréAppeal on sanction
We recently provided a healthcare professional with legal advice in relation to appealing the sanction in their case.
Benjamin Bardell
Benjamin BardellClosed at screening
We recently helped a nurse facing regulatory concerns get her case closed at the screening stage on the basis that the referral was unsubstantiated and the result of bullying in the workplace.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréAppeal on sanction
We provided legal advice to a medical student facing allegations of sexual misconduct.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréAppeal on sanction
We provided representation for a healthcare professional facing an interim order review following a breach of their conditions of practice.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréAppeal on sanction
We provided a healthcare professional with legal advice on appealing the outcome of their case and successfully negotiated for the matter to be remitted back to a fresh panel.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréAppeal on sanction
We provided legal advice and representation to a social work student facing misconduct charges and secured a finding of no impairment.
Benjamin Bardell
Benjamin BardellNEWS: Qualifying Work Experience skills training dates
We are pleased to announce that we will be offering our QWE skills training programme from 8 April and 8 July 2025. The programme is designed to help students from non-traditional backgrounds and those who need to gain experience whilst working around existing work, study and family commitments work remotely to secure the experience that is necessary in order to qualify as a solicitor through the SQE route.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréAdvice and grounds of appeal
We were instructed to review the outcome of a mental health nurse's fitness to practise hearing and provide legal advice and draft the grounds of hear appeal.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréAdvice and grounds of appeal
We were recently instructed by a pharmacist to represent them at a substantive order review hearing and secured no further order.
Benjamin Bardell
Benjamin BardellClosed at screening
Our client was facing allegations of bullying junior members of staff. Following our intervention the case was closed at the screening stage.
Benjamin Bardell
Benjamin BardellNEWS: free counselling for fitness to practise clients
From January 2025 we are offering free counselling to all of our professional clients facing professional discipline proceedings.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Khaled Hussain-DupréLegal representation
We were recently instructed by a nurse who decided to change representation part way through her fitness to practise hearing.

We’re registered in England under number 14201467 as a company limited by guarantee and not-for-profit.

We do not undertake reserved legal work as set out in s.12 Legal Services Act 2007.

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