Care Home Law Lawyer: Lee Gledhill

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Care Home Lawyer Lee Gledhill

Lee Gledhill is a specialist barrister in regulation and healthcare. He is also a former qualified nurse*, and has practised clinically in both the NHS and the private sector, including care homes, prior to qualifying as a lawyer. He has been a qualified barrister for over 26 years at the Bar. He qualified as a RGN* in 1991. 

Over the past 20 years, he has represented and advised care homes, GP and dental practices, clinics and hospitals. Further, he has represented registrants before various regulators, courts and tribunals. He works with care consultants and care organisations, where appropriate, to improve prospects of success. Lee has a number of clients who have managed to pull back from the brink of losing their businesses, having worked closely with him to turn things around.

He is strong in analysing detailed documents in a short space of time, to be able to advise on remedies and responses to regulatory concerns. He drafts persuasive evidence-based documentation for submission to regulators, drafts appeal pleadings, undertakes appeal form completion, drafts skeleton-arguments, advises on evidence and remediation. He is used to working to short-notice deadlines. He is able to advise on and assist in evidential investigations.

He advises on CQC, CIW and Ofsted law and regulation, challenges to magistrates courts decisions, challenges to inspection reports, challenges to warning notices and fixed penalty notices, alleged breaches and criminal prosecutions, drafting statements pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), section 92 Care Act 2014 offences, remedial orders and publicity orders, body corporate offences, and other offences. He also advises on appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal, appeals to the Upper Tribunal, civil and criminal law cases, and appeals generally. He also advises on the duty of candour, safeguarding disclosures and challenges to findings of local authorities and care home regulators, licence conditions on NHS foundation trusts, challenges to CQC/CIW ratings, and judicial review of public authority and regulatory decisions.

If you have a legal matter relating to CQC, CIW and Ofsted law, local authority law, or healthcare related law, give Care Home Defence Service a call in strict confidence and without obligation to see how we can assist you. Call us on:

• Challenges to CQC’s refusal to grant registration
• Responding to inaccurate CQC inspection reports
• Opposing unjustified conditions of compliance or variations
• Challenges to, and Advice on, Fixed Penalty Notices
• Advice on letters of apology under the duty of candour regulations (Regulation 20) and prosecutions
• Written and Evidenced Responses to Notice of Proposal letters
• Appeals from Notice of Decision letters
• Representation at First Tier Tribunal Appeals from Adverse CQC Decisions
• Assisting with the compilation of action plans to reassure CQC
• All CQC compliance matters
• Appeals to the Upper Tribunal in CQC related matters arising from the First Tier Tribunal, namely ‘errors of law’
• Health and Safety Executive law relating to care home establishments, including breaches of Sections 3(1) and 33(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• Governance matters
• Criminal prosecutions of care homes
• Safeguarding concerns and replies
• Public Inquiries into care home deaths / failures
• Inquest Law and Coroner Recommendations concerning care homes
• Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Complaint Inquiries

* no longer registered

To speak with Care Home Lawyer Lee Gledhill, call us without obligation and in strict confidence.