Hearings
England & Wales
21 Feb 2025 [2025] EWHC 373 (Admin); [2025] ICR 1351, KBD (Alan Bates sitting as a deputy High Court judge)
Hindle v Nursing and Midwifery Council
Subject Matter
MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Fitness to practise panel — Decision — Disciplinary charges relying on factual accounts disputed by registrant — Lack of other evidence — Panel finding charges proved and ordering suspension — Decision failing to provide assessment of witnesses’ reliability — Whether decision wrong or unjust — Correct approach where allegations turning on mutually irreconcilable accounts — CPR r 52.21(3)
Commentary
2 Hare Court
The assessment of credibility and sufficiency of reasons: an appeal on the facts: Hindle v NMC [2025] EWHC 373 (Admin)
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