Hearings

This section contains information about our fitness to practise hearings process. If the Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee considers an allegation against a registrant to be serious, a full hearing takes place to judge whether the registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired.

Hearings panel members are impartial and independent of the Council.

The way in which hearing dates are set is described in the  FTPC Listing Protocol  document.

 

IMPORTANT COVID-19 UPDATE

Please note that due to the current COVID-19 emergency and in line with government directions, public and private hearings will no longer be held at our London office. Where possible, we will hold remote virtual hearings either by teleconference, video-link or on the papers.
 

Rule 25(1) requires that substantive hearings must be held in public.  To fulfil this, we will provide a dial-in link to our virtual public hearings in order that interested parties can attend.  Should you wish to observe any of our public hearings please contact the hearings team – hearings@optical.org

 

Use the links below to:

View notices of future hearings
Look at outcomes of past hearings 
Find out how the hearings process works.