Michael Bellis
Principal Associate, Barrister
Experience
Michael is a Principal Associate and Barrister in the Regulatory Team. He is a specialist in professional regulation and an experienced advocate, having completed pupillage at the Nursing and Midwifery Council and worked as a lawyer in the NMC’s case preparation and presentation team for a number of years.
Prior to completing pupillage, Michael undertook fitness to practise investigations in relation to dentists, pharmacists, opticians, social workers and other health and care professions.
Expertise
Michael has significant experience preparing and presenting the full range of fitness to practise hearings, including high profile cases, complex clinical matters, and cases involving sexual misconduct. Michael has dealt with investigations and fitness to practise hearings involving both vulnerable witnesses and vulnerable registrants.
Michael has advised on and successfully defended a number of fitness to practise appeals and made a large number of applications to extend interim orders in the High Court.
Called to the Bar
2011
Qualifications
- LLB (Hons), University of Durham, 2009
- Bar Professional Training Course, City Law School, 2011
Memberships
- The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
- Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
- Bar Council, elected member (2021 – 2024)
- Bar Council: Employed Barristers’ Committee
- Bar Council: Equality, Diversity, and Social Mobility Committee
