Our Leading Cases Include:-

NHS Contracts

Ex parte Baker - The necessary or desirable test

Ex parte Moore (No 2) - New contracts - the need to take into account pharmacies outside the neighbourhood.

Ex parte E Moss Ltd - The necessary or desirable test - Gemini Retail Park -the relevance of convenience.

Ex parte Gompels / Ex parte Suri - minor relocation

Ex parte Worthington / Ex parte Wilson - Those already on a pharmaceutical list do not have to satisfy the "prejudice test" when making a fresh application in a controlled locality.

Ex parte Tesco Stores Ltd. - The necessary or desirable test, convenience, supermarket pharmacies.

Ex parte Lowe (no 2) - a refinement by the Court of Appeal of approach to "adequacy" as set out in the Baker Case.

Statutory Committee

Ex parte Lewis and Jefferies - A Superintendent Pharmacist of a company may delegate personal control and not be guilty of misconduct if something goes wrong.

Riley -v- PSGB - The Statutory Committee should have taken into account the delay before an Inquiry took place.

Ex parte Sokoh - A single act of negligence can be misconduct. Definition of misconduct.

Ex parte Iqbal - The Statutory Committee cannot send a written reprimand without a finding of misconduct; and cannot send a written reprimand after deciding to hold an inquiry.

Panjawani -v- RPSGB - As a result of the Human Rights Act 1998, the High Court can re-hear cases on appeal. This was the first successful appeal for 14 years.

Clients
The firm has acted for the National Pharmaceutical Association since its formation. We also act for the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, the Pharmaceutical Contractors Committee (Northern Ireland), Local Pharmaceutical Committees, and countless individual pharmacists and owners of independent community pharmacies as well as multiples.