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Kashif Mahmood

Consultant Solicitor

020 3319 3700

kashif.mahmood@keystonelaw.co.uk

Kashif is an experienced regulatory and defence lawyer with over 27 years of experience that includes health and safety, personal injury, inquests, and professional discipline.

The focus of his work is defending healthcare professionals at fitness to practise proceedings before their regulatory bodies, such as the GMC and GDC.

Kashif has extensive experience of both sides of regulatory proceedings. He worked as a prosecuting lawyer for the GMC in its fitness to practise directorate for several years. This was followed by 14 years defending healthcare professionals in regulatory, disciplinary, and coronial proceedings as a Legal Adviser and then Lead Legal Adviser at the Medical Protection Society, a leading indemnity provider for healthcare professionals around the world. Kashif has advised several hundred healthcare professionals in his career.

Kashif is also fluent in Urdu.

Expertise

Kashif advises healthcare professionals on fitness to practise matters, from investigation to panel hearings and appeals, providing advice, evidence management, and representation before medical and dental tribunals.

Experience

  • Acted for an international medical graduate doctor in GMC proceedings where the doctor faced multiple allegations of providing inadequate treatment for patients in a secondary care setting. While the doctor acknowledged some failings in aspects of his care, we were able to demonstrate that most of the issues were due to a lack of support for the doctor, leading to the doctor becoming isolated. As a result, the doctor was not found to be impaired by the MPTS.
  • Acted for a doctor in a secondary care setting accused of sexual assault by a junior doctor that was alleged to have taken place at work. Due to the seriousness of the allegation and the fact that the allegation had been made by a fellow doctor, the GMC decided to open a fitness to practise investigation and refer it to their Case Examiners. On behalf of the doctor, gathered evidence including witness statements from multiple colleagues which undermined the credibility of the accuser and her account. This resulted in the case being closed at the Case Examiner stage, without a hearing.
  • Acted for a dentist facing multiple allegations of misconduct relating to the provision of treatment. Through expert evidence and carefully prepared legal submissions, persuaded the GDC’s Case Examiners that there was no real prospect of the GDC being able to prove the allegations. The case was closed, without a hearing.
  • Acted for a consultant doctor working in the private sector accused of conducting inappropriate intimate examinations several years previously by two patients. Presented a case strategy that the examinations were necessary and the patients had provided informed consent, as reflected in the practice records corroborated by witness evidence. The MPTS found the allegations not proved at the subsequent hearing.

Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.

Recognition

Member of the Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers

Kashif qualified as a solicitor in 1999. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2026, he worked at the following organisations:

  •  Medical Protection Society
  •  General Medical Council
  •  Clyde & Co