Nick Hall, barrister at Red Lion Chambers, considers the relevance of inquest proceedings in fitness to practise proceedings in professional discipline law, in this week’s NLJ
His article focuses on a recent case, Towuaghantse v GMC [2021] involving a Medical Practitioners Tribunal’s decision to strike a doctor off the Medical Register, and the doctor’s appeal on several grounds.
There has been a longstanding principle that the conclusions of another body are not relevant to the panel’s findings when determining the fact stage in fitness to practise cases. Hall investigates whether the case suggests this is no longer true.
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