As a witness faced with giving oral evidence to a court or tribunal you will be told how long you may have to make yourself available for, and the unpredictability of the time, sometimes even the day, on which you will be called. What could be better then, than to carry on your normal activities […]
On 22 May 2021, Dr Cook sent an email to the General Medical Council informing them that he had been arrested by the West Midlands Police for child sex offences. His case was referred to an Interim Orders Tribunal which convened on 28 June and imposed an Order of Conditions. On 2 July 2021, Dr […]
Many regulated professionals facing allegations in the course of their professional lives admit that things may have gone wrong. Professor Lingam qualified with a diploma of Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1974. He worked for over 30 years in the NHS, retiring in 2004. […]
It has become common practice for regulators to redact the names of third parties in their decisions, and use letters instead to identify them. This is usually done without application or even notice to the defence and includes names of parties only tangentially relevant to the case as well as witnesses. So commonplace is the […]
The General Medical Council applied for a twelve month extension to an Interim Order of Conditions on Dr M’s practice. An order of conditions for a period of 18 months had first been imposed on 16 April 2019 and renewed on a previous application on 9 September 2020 for a further twelve months. In making […]
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