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The Supreme Court explained the principles of statutory interpretation when considering the proper interpretation of section 13(1) of the Inquiries Act 2005 (‘the Act’): JR222, Re Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2024] UKSC 35 (30 October 2024) Lord Lloyd-Jones,…
The Professional Standards Authority(PSA) joined the General Medical Council (GMC) in appealing a finding by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal that a doctor’s fitness practise was not impaired by reason of the misconduct that the Tribunal had found proved. The Tribunal…
The claimant brought an action against a dentist in the High Court alleging clinical negligence: Winterbotham v Shahrak [2024] EWHC 2633 (KB) Neil Moody KC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). In November 2020 the dentist extracted the lower…
In June 2023 N, a young woman in her early 30s died from breast cancer. After receiving her diagnosis, but before she commenced chemotherapy, N arranged for 20 of her eggs to be harvested and frozen by a registered HFEA…
9 September 2024 A doctor’s appeal against a striking off order made by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal on the grounds that his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct in the form of dishonesty, was allowed to the…
In this appeal from the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), a doctor sought to restore findings of racial discrimination by an Employment Tribunal (ET) in respect of four of his complaints against the General Medical Council as regulator. They were subsequently…
A doctor who was convicted in the Crown Court of the offences of publishing and attempting to publish obscene material appealed to the High Court against certain interim conditions imposed upon his registration by an Interim Orders Tribunal: Cook v…
A doctor brought an appeal under s40 Medical Act 1983 against the findings of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT) of misconduct and impairment of fitness to practise. There was no separate challenge on the sanction decision of suspension for six…
The partial success of a doctor’s appeal in the Administrative Court resulted in the case being remitted to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal for reconsideration of its determination on fitness to practise and sanction based on the remaining findings: Dutta v…
A nurse who faced a disciplinary panel of the Nursing & Midwifery Council and admitted charges that he was convicted in the Crown Court of committing an act/series of acts with intent to pervert the course of public justice and,…