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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
If a registrant presents as lacking insight into their behaviour and the effect of it on others, a panel can legitimately take the view that that attitude is relevant to both impairment and to sanction if necessary.
In May 2010 a finding of serious professional misconduct and the sanction of erasure was handed down by the GMC’s fitness to practise panel (the Panel) against Professor Walker-Smith (the appellant). On 7 March 2012 Mr Justice Mitting allowed the appellant’s appeal, handing down a judgment quashing the finding and sanction.
Appeal allowed as Fitness to Practise Panel of GMC had relied on its own self-avowed expertise in place of expert evidence and after inadequate reasons were given.
In the last month there have been a number of noteworthy press releases by various regulatory bodies, particularly in relation to improvements to their processes.
When does treatment go from being simply incompetent to dishonest?
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