The Industrial Cases Reports
[2007] ICR 701
Court of Appeal
Meadow
v
General Medical Council
[2006] EWCA Civ 1390
2006 July 10,
11,
12;
Oct 26
Oct 26
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Auld and Thorpe LJJ
Evidence
— Expert evidence
— Immunity from suit
— Disciplinary proceedings brought against medical practitioner for giving flawed but honest expert evidence
— Whether witness's immunity from suit extending to disciplinary proceedings
Medical practitioner
— Discipline
— “Serious professional misconduct”
— Whether confined to matters of clinical practice
— Whether including conduct as expert witness in criminal proceedings
— Whether appeal from disciplinary panel by way of review or rehearing
—
Medical Act 1983, s. 40
[1]
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CPR r 52.11, PD 52, para 22.3
[2]