GMC wins right to appeal ruling that registrar’s fitness to practise was not impaired

The General Medical Council (GMC) has used a new right of appeal to overturn a finding in favour of a doctor by a medical practitioners tribunal. In the first such case to be heard since the GMC was given a right of appeal in December 2015,1 the High Court ruled that the tribunal’s failure to find that a doctor’s actions were sexually motivated was “wrong and unsustainable.” The …