Paul Spencer

Practice Areas

Paul offers significant expertise in a range of fields including: Regulatory, Inquests & Inquiries, Health & Social Care, Healthcare Providers & Professionals, CQC enforcement action, advising clients facing CQC PACE questions and prosecution, Health & Safety, Police, NHS Counter Fraud and other investigations.

Paul has acted for Core participants in many key inquiries, inquests and investigations. He led the legal team at Public Health England at the Mid Staffs Inquiry and represented clients at the Deepcut and Hillsborough inquests. He advises clients who face investigation by regulatory bodies, the Police, and those required to give evidence to investigatory organisations and Select Committees of the House of Commons. He has chaired independent investigations for NHS Trusts including those considering whether the Chair and CE have complied with Regulation 5 of the 2014 Regulations.

For many years Paul has also acted for a number of the regulators (L/As under the RHA 1984, NCSC, CSCI, HCC, OFSTED and CQC) and has a wealth of experience and clear understanding of the approach that is required to such enforcement cases and the guidance set out in the ‘enforcement tree’. He acted for CQC in their largest prosecution of provider.

Please visit the Serjeants' Inn website for his profile, which sets out full details of his practice including relevant work of note.