Carlton Sadler LLB

Carlton Sadler was ahead of our Healthcare Regulatory team and an experienced regulatory lawyer specializing in health and social care service regulation. Carlton Sadler's works on contentious and non-contentious matters ranging from advice to regulators on the exercise of their powers, representation in judicial review challenges, regulatory enforcement work in terms of prosecutions, and appeals to the First-tier Tribunal, and representation in a public inquiry.

Carlton Sadler work on quality governance issues including advising clients on quality governance processes and the handling of complex high-profile investigations into patient safety and quality issues. Carlton Sadler advises health and social care providers on various aspects of regulatory law. Such advice includes the impact of regulatory considerations on the re-structuring exercises and governance arrangements, the making of applications for registration, issues relating to ongoing compliance, and responses to enforcement action taken by the regulator. experience includes numerous cases in the First-tier Tribunal, regulatory prosecutions, and urgent applications to magistrates as well as judicial review challenges to the exercise of regulators’ powers.

Carlton Sadler has advised regulators in the health and social care sector since local regulation in the 1990s. Subsequently, Carlton Sadler has acted extensively for the National Care Standards Commission and its successors up to and including the Care Quality Commission ("CQC"). Carlton Sadler was the recognized legal representative for the CQC in the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry.