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The End of Leasehold Flats? A Breakdown of the Draft Commonhold and Leasehold Bill
Úna Campbell
Fitness to Practice Panel’s decision that actions of senior consultant gastroenterologist amounted to misconduct quashed as irrational.
The important distinction between cases of clinical incompetence and misconduct when considering weight to be attached to remedial action is reaffirmed.
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.
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