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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
28 March 2012
The E-Regulator: Aga v General Medical Council [2012] EWHC 782 (Admin)
Fitness to Practice Panel’s decision that actions of senior consultant gastroenterologist amounted to misconduct quashed as irrational.
27 March 2012
The E-Regulator: Chief Constable of Hampshire v Police Appeals Tribunal [2012] EWHC 746 (Admin)
Court highlights legislative lacuna which meant that a Police Appeals Tribunal (PAT) had no power to remit the case or re-determine the issue, leaving them with no other option but to reinstate the officer.
20 March 2012
The E-Regulator: Ujam v GMC (No.2) [2012] EWHC 683 (Admin)
The important distinction between cases of clinical incompetence and misconduct when considering weight to be attached to remedial action is reaffirmed.
13 March 2012
The E-Regulator: Ujam v General Medical Council [2012] EWHC 580 (Admin)
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.
7 March 2012
The E-Regulator: Walker-Smith v General Medical Council [2012] EWHC 503 (Admin)
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.