Regulatory Law Update

Saha v The General Medical Council [2009] EWHC 1907 (Admin)   The High Court found that the General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel had been justified in finding that the failure of a doctor, who suffered from hepatitis B, to provide information as to his past employers was in breach of good medical practice and constituted misconduct, by reason of which his fitness to practise was impaired. The panel had therefore been entitled to impose the sanction of erasure of his name from the register.

Published on 23/01/2010 21:00:00

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 Complaints against Solicitors.
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