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Outstanding legal advice and representation
Comprehensive legal support for health and care 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, Sequentus Education delivers innovative legal education programmes to help aspiring lawyers 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.
In 2026, we became Sequentus Legal Services, working with our not-for-profit, Sequentus Education which part funds our work through innovative legal education programmes and collaborations with leading UK universities and training providers.
Specialist lawyers
Khaled
Hussain-Dupré
Senior Case Lawyer // Director
Khaled is a qualified lawyer whose main area of practice is professional discipline. He is regularly instructed to represent health and care professionals in complex fitness to practise proceedings, robustly defending against the most serious allegations. Khaled represents clients before practice committees of all the major health and care regulators.
Benjamin
Bardell
Case Lawyer // Director
Ben focuses on case preparation for professional discipline hearings and specialises in the early resolution of regulatory concerns. Ben has extensive experience liaising with regulators and in-depth knowledge of the regulatory frameworks. He also represents clients in both interim order and substantive hearings.
Rebecca
March
Junior 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 both professional discipline and student FTP cases, representing clients at both interim order and substantive hearings.
Jenson
Woodhouse
Assistant Case Lawyer
Jenson completed the Bar Training Course in 2026 and undertakes case reviews and hearing preparation for professional discipline and university FTP cases. Jenson also represents students at FTP hearings.
Jyoti
Kumar
Assistant 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
Assistant 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 and updates
Outcomes, developments and programme announcements
Khaled represented a paramedic, G, who was under investigation by the police for serious sexual offences. The regulator sought an interim suspension order. No charges had been brought and the regulator had no evidence…
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Cases
D, a registered nurse, was referred to the NMC by a member of the public in November 2017. The referrer alleged that D had dishonestly conducted an inaccurate PIP assessment in December 2016.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Cases
Rebecca represented a nurse, L at a review hearing of their substantive suspension order. L had provided a number of reflections during her suspension period and gave live evidence at the review hearing, following whi…
Rebecca March
Cases
A student, M, studying to become a Practitioner Psychologist faced a fitness to practise hearing brought by his academic institution. M had disclosed to the institution that he was taking time away from clinical pract…
Ben Bardell
Cases
We represented Nurse D, who was referred to the NMC for dishonestly providing a false employment reference when applying for a nursing role. D admitted to the dishonest conduct prior to the referral.
Ben Bardell
Cases
Khaled represented L, a nurse, at a 14-day substantive fitness to practise hearing. The charges L faced were a mixture of misconduct allegations, including that L had incorrectly administered vaccinations to children,…
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Cases
Khaled was instructed to represent J, a paramedic already subject to an interim conditions of practice order. Although the previous panel had assessed the risk in the case based on the evidence, Khaled successfully ar…
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Cases
Sequentus was instructed by three registrants, all nurses working for the Ministry of Defence, in relation to linked referrals about their practice. Although all three cases were successfully closed at screening, the …
Ben Bardell
Cases
D, a registered nurse, admitted to breaching professional boundaries by entering into a relationship with a patient he had treated. The allegations, and the harm that the former patient reported experiencing when the …
Laura Strickland
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