Fitness to practise appeal specialists
Help with fitness to practise appeals to the High Court
If your regulator has struck you off, suspended you, or imposed conditions on your practice, that decision is not necessarily the end of it. You may be able to appeal to the High Court – and we can help you do it.
Our fee is fixed at £2,400 +VAT. That covers us compiling all of the relevant material in your case and reviewing it in full before we give you our initial view. We then get a further review by an independent barrister and, where appropriate, we will draft your grounds of appeal. There is no hourly billing and nothing further to pay.
Your time to appeal is short and it is already running. For most regulators it is 28 days from the day you were notified of the decision after your hearing. Miss it and the decision stands, whatever the merits of your appeal. So the first thing we need from you is the date you were notified.
Call us on 020 3151 8015, email ftp@sequentus.org, or book a free call below. If you received the decision more than two weeks ago, please call rather than email.
What £2,400 +VAT covers
One fixed fee, agreed before we start. No hourly billing and no surprises.
All of the relevant material in your case compiled and reviewed in full
Our initial view on your grounds of appeal
A further review by an independent barrister, instructed by us under the Bar Standards Board Licensed Access scheme
Your grounds of appeal drafted, where appropriate
Help drafting an application for costs protection
A walkthrough of how to file, with someone on the phone to you
How it works
We compile everything relevant in your case, review it in full and give you our initial advice, before getting an independent view from a barrister and, where appropriate, drafting your grounds. You file the appeal and you remain the appellant – we are not on the record and we do not have conduct of the litigation, so the court’s deadline is yours to meet. We are approved under the Bar Standards Board’s Licensed Access scheme, which is how we instruct barristers directly on our clients’ behalf.
- You tell us the date you were notified of the decision. We work out your deadline and confirm it to you in writing straight away.
- We compile and review everything. The decision, the evidence, the panel’s reasoning and what went wrong – then we give you our initial advice on whether there are grounds worth running.
- Then an independent barrister reviews it. We instruct counsel ourselves, under our Bar Standards Board Licensed Access approval. A second view on whether the appeal is worth running. If we both think it is not, we will tell you that plainly – it is better than spending money on an appeal that cannot succeed.
- Where appropriate, we draft your grounds of appeal.
- We help you draft an application for costs protection. An appeal that does not succeed can leave you paying the regulator’s costs as well as your own. Where it is available, we help you ask the court to limit what you could be ordered to pay.
- You file, and we walk you through it. We take you through the form, the fee, and where it goes, and stay with you until it is filed. The court confirms the appeal has been filed, so you have that in writing from them.
- You can ask your regulator to keep us updated. If you ask them to keep us copied on the appeal and their responses, we stay across it and can keep advising you as it goes on.
If your appeal goes to a hearing
The fixed fee covers advising you, the barrister’s review and, where appropriate, drafting your grounds. It does not cover representation at a hearing in the High Court. If your appeal gets that far, we can instruct a barrister to represent you under the same Licensed Access approval. We will get you a quote first, and nothing is instructed until the fee is agreed and paid.
Why come to us
We do fitness to practise work and very little else. We appear before the practice committees of every major health and care regulator, week in and week out, and we follow published hearing outcomes daily – so when we tell you how panels and the court have treated cases like yours, it comes from the current picture rather than a textbook.
We are approved under the Bar Standards Board’s Licensed Access scheme, so we can instruct barristers directly on our clients’ behalf – you do not have to find and brief one yourself, and there is no firm of solicitors in between.
The price is fixed and agreed before we start, so you know what an appeal costs you before you commit to one.
Free counselling
As part of our commitment to mental health, we provide all of our clients with access to free counselling to support you through the appeals process. Being removed from the register you have worked your whole career for is a bereavement, and we treat it as one.
Related
If your case has not been decided yet, see our advice on fitness to practise cases. If your case involves a criminal conviction, see help with criminal appeals and wrongful convictions.
Fitness to practise experts
...with you every step of the way
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.
Alexia
Cortes
Assistant Case Lawyer
Alexia completed the Bar Training Course at City Law School and now manages client cases, providing legal analysis and advanced preparation for hearings.
Isobel
Stockley
Assistant Case Lawyer
Isobel completed the Bar Training Course at City Law School and is a future pupil barrister. Isobel works directly with clients analysing the issues in their case, and provides feedback and assistance with reflections and engendering insight.
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.
Sequentus was established in 2022 to provide affordable legal assistance through a dedicated team of qualified and experienced lawyers and trainee lawyers who specialise in healthcare regulation. In 2026, we became Sequentus Legal Services, working alongside our not-for-profit, Sequentus Education, which part-funds the work we do through innovative partnerships with leading UK universities.
We understand the stress that comes with facing allegations made by your regulator. The financial pressures, the uncertainties of not knowing what the outcome will be and whether you can continue to work… and the combined effect that all of these things can have on your mental health. We also know that legal fees are just an additional worry on top of everything else.
Our fixed fees are kept as low as possible to allow you to access legal advice, support and representation throughout the entire FTP process. Our team of professionals handle cases sensitively but robustly. We pride ourselves on being approachable with an unwavering focus on achieving the best outcome for you, whilst taking away some of the stress by dealing with the regulator on your behalf.
Our work is covered by professional indemnity insurance and we are not required to be regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
If you have any questions about FTP or just need a new perspective speak to our team and find out how Sequentus can help you.
Next steps
Tell us the date you were notified of the decision, and we will tell you your deadline.
Khaled Hussain-Dupré
Senior Case Lawyer // Director
Alternatively you can call us on 020 3151 8015
Schedule a Free Call
In the box for additional information, please give us the date you were notified of the decision and what the panel decided. It lets us work out your deadline before we speak.
Pick a convenient date and time below. You will receive a confirmation email including the option for a Microsoft Teams meeting or a telephone call.
I would like to be clear that from our first conversation I felt no doubt that you had my back, and furthermore that whilst I am in no position to judge professional capability as a solicitor, you presented as a trustworthy, competent, capable person, and those are qualities that I can judge.
The effect of having you on my side made me feel that I had somebody who I could trust, who knew the way through the maze in which I was lost.
Thank you for assistance – greatly appreciated. I can now focus on moving forward.
I can't thank you enough for your input and updates in getting my case closed.
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.
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.