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22 May 2008 / B. Mahendra
Issue: 7322 / Categories: Features
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An important aspect of legal process is, of course, procedural fairness, as much applicable to professional disciplinary proceedings as to other trials. We now also have the additional requirement imposed by Art 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) that provides that “everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable period of time”. The question of undue delay was the issue that primarly exercised the

Administrative Court
in Selvarajan v General Medical Council( 2008) EWHC 182 (Admin), [2008] All ER (D) 110 (Feb). Dr Selvarajan was a general practitioner who was alleged to have defrauded the local health authority of £150,000 by falsely prescribing drugs, sharing the spoils with a local chemist who had purported to have dispensed the drugs. These activities took place between 1994 and 1996. It was only in March 2006 that the General Medical Council (GMC) got around to imposing the sanction of erasure from the medical register on the doctor. He appealed on the ground that the GMC had misdirected itself on
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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