Clare Strickland

Clare is a partner and head of our regulatory group. She is a highly experienced regulatory lawyer with particular expertise in advising and representing regulators in the healthcare sector. She is an advocate with significant High Court and Court of Appeal experience.

Main areas of practice

Clare supports clients with all aspects of regulatory law and procedure, including operational casework, advice on strategy and policy, and regulatory reform.

Clients

Clare has experience of supporting regulators and policy makers across a range of sectors, including healthcare, teaching, legal and financial. She also advises and represents individuals and organisations facing regulatory action, and the bodies representing them.

Significant experience

Clare has been operations/delivery partner for three large healthcare regulators. She has specialised in serious and high profile case work, including High Court/Court of Appeal matters.

While working in-house at a healthcare regulator, Clare:

• Led the policy and change teams responsible for the development of the regulator’s fitness to practise strategy
• Led on the formation of a  public support service
• Led the operational fitness to practise teams
• Led on the regulatory reform work stream for fitness to practise.

Expertise

• Regulatory, Disciplinary & Compliance
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Regulatory and Compliance Support for Businesses

Career

Clare completed a degree in law at the University of Birmingham in 1994, and qualified as a barrister the following year. She did pupillage at 23 Essex Street and spent the first nine years of her career there as a self-employed barrister, specialising in crime and regulation. She joined the Nursing and Midwifery Council as an in-house barrister in 2004. She moved to Blake Morgan as a partner in 2015, before returning the NMC as deputy director, fitness to practise, in 2017. She rejoined Blake Morgan in 2021.