EDITORIAL
Expert witnesses
Some relief for expert witnesses
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Correspondence to:
H Marcovitch
Honeysuckle House, Balscote, Banbury OX15 6JW, UK; h.marcovitch@btinternet.com
Appeal of Professor Sir Roy Meadow against the GMC finding him guilty of professional misconduct
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On 26 October 2006, the Court of Appeal for England and Wales handed down its judgement on the General Medical Council’s appeal from the decision of Mr Justice Collins, who, in the High Court of Justice in London in February 2006, had allowed the appeal of Professor Sir Roy Meadow against the finding of the General Medical Council (GMC) that he had been guilty of serious professional misconduct (SPM). Mr Justice Collins had quashed the finding and the direction to erase Sir Roy’s name from the medical register.1
By a majority of 2 to 1 (Sir Anthony Clarke dissenting), the appeal court found that Professor Meadow had not been guilty of serious professional misconduct and, that even had that been the case, the Court "could not contemplate erasure as an appropriate penalty for [his] uncharacteristic honest errors in ths difficult case;" Lord Justice Thorpe, commenting on the GMC
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