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[2025] WLR(D) 70
Court of Appeal
General Dental Council v Aga
[2025] EWCA Civ 68
2025 Jan 16;
Feb 4
Feb 4
Nicola Davies, Stuart-Smith, Whipple LJJ
Dentist— Discipline— Suspension— Professional Conduct Committee directing suspension of dentist for nine months— Committee also making immediate suspension order— Judge treating the two periods as continuous suspension subject to 12-month statutory maximum— Judge deducting period of suspension under order of immediate suspension from length of substantive direction of suspension— Whether two periods of suspension distinct with duration of each unaffected by other—
Dentists Act 1984 (c 24), ss 27B(6), 29A, 30