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[2023] WLR(D) 521
King’s Bench Division
Aga v General Dental Council
[2023] EWHC 3208 (Admin)
2023 Dec 5; 13
Ritchie J
Dentist— Discipline— Registration— Professional conduct committee directing suspension of dentist for nine months on grounds of impairment of fitness to practice— Suspension direction taking effect under statutory provisions on disposal of dentist’s appeal— Committee also making immediate suspension order to have effect in meantime— Claimant’s appeal against sanction taking several months to be heard— General Dental Council treating duration of suspension direction as commencing on disposal of appeal— Whether misinterpreting statutory provisions— Whether period of suspension already served under immediate suspension order to be deducted— Whether period of suspension exceeding statutory limit taking account of time taken to appeal—
Dentists Act 1984 (c 24), ss 27B(6), 29A, 30