Aga v General Dental Council

Subject Matter

DENTIST — Discipline — Suspension — Professional Conduct Committee directing suspension of dentist for nine months — Committee also making immediate suspension order — Claimant’s appeal against sanction taking over four months to be heard — Whether General Dental Council entitled to impose consecutive suspension periods exceeding 12-month statutory maximum — Dentists Act 1984 (c 24), ss 27B(6), 29A, 30

[2023] EWHC 3208 (Admin); [2024] ICR 477; [2023] WLR(D) 521, KBD

DENTIST — Discipline — Suspension — Professional Conduct Committee directing suspension of dentist for nine months — Committee also making immediate suspension order — Judge treating two periods as continuous suspension subject to 12-month statutory maximum — Whether periods of suspension distinct with duration of each unaffected by other — Dentists Act 1984 (c 24), ss 27B(6), 29A, 30

[2025] EWCA Civ 68; [2025] ICR 880; [2025] IRLR 696; [2025] WLR(D) 70, CA

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