Training & Knowledge: Professional Discipline

21st Feb 2023Newsletters

Freeman v General Medical Council [2023] EWHC 45 (Admin) 16th January 2023

Absent witnesses: how the former British Cycling and Team Sky Doctor lost the appeal against his doping erasure: Cycling has for many years been a sport marred by doping accusations, many of which have subsequently been proved or admitted. The latest chapter in this story concerns Dr Richard Freeman, formerly Team Doctor for both British […]

21st Feb 2023Newsletters

Joseph v General Medical Council [2022] EWHC 3345

Corroboration, Credibility and Demeanour: High Court rejects appeal in erasure case concerning serious sexual abuse by a doctor The rather appalling facts of this case concern the double rape and sexual harassment (over a period of a year) of a female doctor by another male doctor. A particularly harrowing aspect of the case was that […]