Disciplinary law is intended to uphold the quality of professional practice. Unlike complaints committees, disciplinary courts can institute measures against individual practitioners.

In the Netherlands, these are the Medical Disciplinary Tribunals, which handle complaints concerning the manner in which physicians and medical specialists exercise their duties. There is also a Central Medical Disciplinary Tribunal in The Hague, which hears complaint cases brought on appeal.

Our firm has extensive experience of proceedings before the Medical Disciplinary Tribunals and Central Medical Disciplinary Tribunal, which has also made us an effective advisor to care and medical institutions with queries about disciplinary law. Moreover, our litigation experience in disciplinary court proceedings guarantees that we are conversant in the field and know how to approach any case.

Medical disciplinary law covers a broad terrain and spans countless treatments. This also includes treatments that fall outside the clinical treatment relationship between a medical professional and patient. In practice, problems may involve failures to keep patient files up to date, maintaining an affective relationship with patients or refusing to take part in a joint locum scheme. Our principal focus is on representing the interests of medical professionals in complaints proceedings, and we welcome physicians and medical specialists to call on our expertise and experience.