- Sarah Ellson
- Partner, Manchester
- Field Fisher Waterhouse
- sarah.ellson@ffw.com
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+44 (0)16 1200 1773
Sarah Ellson is a partner and head of
our Public and
RegulatoryLaw Group and our Manchester office.
Sarah specialises in the life sciences, education and public sector sectors and has experience of
all aspects of the Group’s work, in particular the prosecution of
cases before the fitness to practise committees of the General
Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. She also
presents cases before disciplinary panels and undertakes advocacy
at some regulatory tribunals.
Sarah sits as a legal assessor for
the General Social Care Council, the General Teaching Council the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Sarah has worked for a number
of smaller and start up regulators and licencing bodies, as a
result she has been involved in drafting and interpretation of
regulations. She has conducted review projects on complaints
handling and licensing procedures for public bodies. She works on
judicial reviews, appeals and CHRE cases and has specialist
experience in statutory prosecutions in the Magistrates Court in
areas including childcare and the illegal practise of
dentistry.
Sarah regularly provides bespoke
training for Panellists and those who act as adjudicator and also
for investigative and disciplinary staff at a range of regulators.
She also trains Police Authority staff who have to deal with
conduct matters. Sarah also has specialist experience of conducting
review projects on complaints handling, licensing procedures and
prosecution policies for public bodies including the Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
Sarah is described by Chambers Guide
to the Legal Profession as “a very fair prosecutor who clearly
has a first-class grasp of the practice area”… she also
impressed sources with her “thorough understanding of the
area” and “sensible, user-friendly attitude.”
Sarah is a member of the Association
of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL) and the Manchester
Law Society and has has spoken at the Butterworths' Regulation of
Health and Social Care Providers conference 2010 and LexisNexis
Healthcare Professional Regulation conference 2011.