Adam Weston

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Adam has practiced in healthcare defence for 20 years and is the head of our regulatory, disciplinary and criminal defence practice groups in England & Wales. He manages our most complex and high-profile regulatory, disciplinary, advisory and criminal cases and is instructed by medical defence organisations, insurers, professional associations, healthcare businesses and individual clinicians. He undertakes advocacy before the regulatory bodies.       

His regulatory cases bring him before the General Medical Council (GMC), General Dental Council (GDC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), General Optical Council (GOC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and Health and Care Professions Council, (HCPC) as well as NHS England and NHS Hospital Trusts. Adam is routinely instructed in lengthy, complex investigations into serious allegations of misconduct, dishonesty and clinical incompetence. He is also frequently involved in Care Quality Commission (CQC) investigations on behalf of registered managers and organisations.

In recent years he has been instructed to represent clinicians involved in the Infected Blood Inquiry, the Covid Inquiry, the Thirlwall Inquiry and consequent regulatory and criminal investigations arising from those Inquiries. 
 
In his criminal practice Adam defends healthcare professionals in cases involving gross negligence manslaughter, neglect, medicines act offences, sexual assault, common assault, fraud against the NHS, racially motivated public order offences, perverting the course of justice and indecent images of children. He also routinely advises clients in relation to DBS matters following the closure of criminal and regulatory investigations.

Adam has been ranked as a leading partner by Legal500 and Chambers & Partners for the last 16 years. He is reported to be “brilliant tactically and lovely to work with.”