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Home > Registration & support > Registration Appeals Committee

The Registration Appeals Committee is a Statutory Committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, established under Section 7 of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007. The procedures of the Committee are set out in Part 5 of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Registration) Rules 2007 and in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Fitness to Practise and Registration Appeals Committees and Their Advisers) Rules 2007.

For the Order and Rules, click on the links below:

For more information click on the links below:

Membership of the Registration Appeals Committee
Proceedings
Recent appeal hearings

Membership of the Registration Appeals Committee

The members of the Registration Appeals Committee are:

Siobhan Goodrich (Chairman)
Geoffrey Pettigrew (Deputy Chairman)
Reema Caddies (Pharmacist member)
Michael Cann (Lay member)
Samantha Durant (Pharmacy technician member)
Melanie Hawes (Lay member)
Deborah Railton (Pharmacist member)
Paul Sommerfeld (Lay member)
Dr Anthony Theobald (Pharmacist member)
Deborah Williams (Pharmacy technician member)

For the register of members' interests, click on a member's name in the list above

For an explanation of the register of members' interests, click here

All Committee members are expected to abide by a Code of Conduct. To see the Code, click here

Proceedings

The Chair of the Committee is legally qualified, and in appropriate cases the Committee will sit with a medical adviser. The quorum for meetings of the Committee and the role of advisers to the Commttee are set out in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Fitness to Practise and Registration Appeals Committees and Their Advisers) Rules 2007.

The function of the Committee is to consider decisions previously taken by the Society's Registrar which are "appealable registration decisions" for the purposes of the 2007 Order. Article 42 of the Order sets out a list of such decisions. Please note that the Committee is unable to consider appeals from decisions which are not listed in Article 42.

For guidance on the types of decisions which the Committee is able to consider, click on the link below:

Appealable registration decisions

Any person wishing to appeal a decision listed in article 42 must first serve a Notice of Appeal on the Registrar. The Society has prepared a standard template Notice which must be used.

To download a Notice of Appeal, click on the link below:

Notice of Appeal

You will be asked to choose whether you wish your appeal to be considered on the papers by the Committee, or to have a public hearing before the Committee. Please note that, at a public hearing, the Society will be represented by a lawyer, and the Committee has the power to order that you or the Society, should pay the costs of that hearing. Where an appeal relates to issues of character or health, the Committee will take account of the Good Character and Health Framework published by the Society.

For the framework, click on the link below:

Good Character and Health Framework

The Society has prepared guidance on the procedures for making an appeal, and on the procedures at public hearings

For the guidance, click on the links below:

Recent appeal hearings

For information relating to current and recent Registration Appeals Committee hearings, click on the links below:

2008
January
Determinations notice (18 January) Determination (Ms Shahina Mohamed) Determination (Mr Yunis Nazir) Determinations notice (29 January) Determination (Mr Adeleke Aromolaran)