Help with fitness to practise cases

If you are an optician, optometrist or student facing fitness to practise proceedings by the General Optical Council (GOC) or another organisation, we can help.

We’re a not-for-profit and charge £60 per hour (or an agreed fixed-fee) for specialist legal advice, preparing your case and if necessary, our lawyers representing you at a hearing.

Call us on 020 3151 8015 for a free confidential discussion or scroll down to find out more about how we work.

Get low cost professional legal advice

All of our services are billed at £60 per hour or on an agreed fixed-fee basis.

Initial Review

No matter how complex your case is, we will carry out a comprehensive review and provide you with a document which sets out the legal and factual issues that need to be dealt with. We will give you detailed advice on potential defences to the allegations that you are facing.

We will also explain the process that your regulator will follow. Even if you have already received a notice from your regulator or proceedings have started, we can still assist.

Case Preparation

We prepare your case, including dealing with the regulator on your behalf, compiling evidence and bundles and drafting any legal arguments that are necessary.

Representation

If your case is going to be heard by an FTP panel our lawyers can represent you at the hearing.

Free counselling

As part of our commitment to mental health, we provide all of our clients with free counselling to support you through the fitness to practise process.

About us

We are a not-for-profit organisation established in 2022 to provide affordable legal assistance through a dedicated team of qualified lawyers and trainee lawyers who specialise in healthcare regulation. Our work is part-funded by 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 fees are kept as low as possible so that we can help as many people as possible. Our work is covered by professional indemnity insurance. We are not required to be regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Next steps

Khaled Hussain-Dupré

Case Lawyer – Director
khd@sequentus.org

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"Thank you so much for all your help - there is no way that I could have prepared all the documents and presented the case that way you did."

"Your advice and the way the case was prepared gave me hope again."

"I really appreciated you taking the time at the end of each day of the hearing to talk to me and explain everything and let me know what to expect next."

"This process has taken a huge toll on my mental health. Knowing that I have support and can discuss the things that are worrying me is invaluable. Thank you."

"I am so glad that you could represent me - even though I only found out about your service one week before my hearing, it has made a massive difference. Before that I did not know what to do."

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.