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Appeals
Useful information about appealing your case, including self-litigation, FAQs and some personal insight to the process.

Our vexatious referral: lack of insight or a grief response?
Jul 2025
NMCWatch has been working with Simon Holborn, from Humans Ltd, for a number of years now. It...

Recovery after FtP
Apr 2025
As I reach my eighth year of NMCWatch, I am thinking back to the person I was on 12th June 2017,...
Another lost registrant?
Aug 2024
Are overseas nurses and midwives being given a fair assessment to register in the UK, or is there...
Grounds of appeal
Mar 2023
Recently we attended an appeal hearing of a midwife, who was taking to the High Court the decision...
Complicit regulation
Jan 2023
Everyone is painfully aware of the state of the current situation with our Healthcare service. It...
How to appeal my strike-off order
May 2022
When we are told we can no longer practice or have restrictions on our practice there is a range...
KEK 2018-2020 – cost of hearing
Feb 2022
Based on an FOI and court costs observed in 2018 - these costs were worked out on the rates given...
Appeals FAQs
Oct 2021
Will my union support an appeal? Unions will only support an appeal if there is a 51% chance of...
Self litigation
Sep 2021
If you are attending an employment tribunal without legal representation have a look at this...

5 Little words
Sep 2021
First published 19 Aug 2017 by Cathryn Watters. "Order Revoked with Immediate Effect" After...

Lessons in law
Sep 2021
First published 27 June 2017, by Cathryn Watters. For those of you who read “Life’s Never Simple”...
Appealing an Interim Review Order
May 2021
This template has been put together by Human Rights Action and shared with us to help anyone...
High Court Judgements: PSA v NMC (2019)
Apr 2021
Justice Farbey (09.05.19) in the case of the Professional Standards Authority V's Nursing and...

This many Judges can’t be wrong
Mar 2021
First pub. Oct 2020 - updated many times since. Over the last few years we have reviewed cases...