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General
Philip Engelman has been in practice for 30 years. During that time he has represented clients from both the domestic and international arena, including private individuals; companies; local government; central government; major bodies, including the Royal College of Nursing, the Law Society, the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants, the Official Solicitor, GMB, NALGO (now UNISON), and other public bodies. He has appeared in the House of Lords; Privy Council; Court of Appeal; Divisional Court; Administrative Court; all divisions of the High Court, including the Commercial Court; the Technology and Construction Court; and many Tribunals including in particular the Employment Tribunal, the Care Standards Tribunal, SENDSIT, GMC, FHSAA, NMC, SDT and ACCA.
Recent litigation includes the Hickey miscarriage of justice award before the House of Lords (O'Brien v The Independent Adjudicator); whether a GP's place on a local Performers List is Article 1/Protocol 1 Property - also before the House of Lords (Countryside Alliance); Doctor's discipline before the Privy Council (Dr. Obi v GMC); the admissibility of findings of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal into Chancery proceedings - Court of Appeal (Simms v Colon & another); local disciplinary powers over GPs - Court of Appeal (Dr. Malik v Waltham Forest NHS Trust); the extent of the GMC's disciplinary powers over doctors - Court of Appeal (Hiew v GMC); legal professional privilege - EAT (Brennan (No. 3)); the interpretation of domestic law by reference to the EU treaty - EAT (Brennan (No. 1)); the requirement of consultation by a local authority and its equality duties - Admin Court (R (Barwick & another) v Bridgend CBC); the ambit of the disciplinary process of the FHSAA over a GP - Admin Court (Neath and Port Talbot LHB v Dr. Gilbey); the operation of the deeming provisions in the National Assistance Act 1948 - Admin Court (R (Cardiff CC) v Welsh Assembly Government); the construction of the standard form insurance contract governing environmental pollution - QBD (Bartoline v Royal Sun Alliance); and construction of a contract concerning the Olympic Games - QBD (Balcome v London Development Agency).
Over the years he has been involved in much high profile litigation, and his clients have included those who have suffered miscarriage of justice; those on death row in the Caribbean and elsewhere; animal rights groups; ethnic minority Bar students; and more prosaically, international tennis players. He has acted in many cases involving community care, school admissions, school closures; disciplinary, regulatory and employment cases, in particular many of the current substantial cases concerning equal pay.
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Publications
Commercial Judicial Review, Sweet & Maxwell (2000)
Care Standards Act 2000, OUP (2003)
Bullen and Leake's Precedents - (Education), Sweet & Maxwell (2009)
Challenging Racism: Using the Human Rights Act (Education), Lawrence & Wishart (2001)
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