Direct Access Barrister

Nicholas Paul Kennan

Direct Access Barrister

Nicholas Paul Kennan

I am a general civil law barrister specialising in professional discipline, personal injury and clinical negligence.

I served as a logistics officer in the Royal Navy before becoming a solicitor in 2008. I obtained my higher rights of audience in criminal and civil proceedings in 2010 before transferring to the Bar in 2015.

Area of Law

Professional Discipline

I have advised healthcare professionals and teachers in proceedings brought by their regulatory bodies (GMC, NMC, HCPC & TRA), and my focus is on ensuring that you are able to continue in your chosen career.

Representing doctors is a particular interest and I have appeared in internal disciplinary hearings where doctors are contractually entitled to legal representation as well as before the Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service. A doctor client described me as an advocate who has a combination of “competence, tact, humility and pragmatism with an unique eye for detail.”

I have also successfully represented a student at risk of being removed from a profession allied to medicine course at university and appealed a decision to exclude a pupil from school.

What sort of work do I do?

I accept direct access instructions in professional disciplinary matters.

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