Consideration was given to the position of the Professional Conduct Committee of the General Medical Council as constituted. The committee exercised disciplinary powers over registered medical practitioners. For the purposes of contempt of court, proceedings before the professional conduct committee of the General Medical Council were not a court which was accordingly not entitled to control reporting.
Judges:
Stuart-Smith, aldous, Robert Walker LJJ
Citations:
Gazette 24-Jun-1998, Times 11-Jun-1998, [1998] EWCA Civ 949, [1998] 3 All ER 426, [1998] 1 WLR 1573
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Metcalf, Denton, Foster 26-May-2021
Public Inquiry is not In the Course of Justice
(Crown Court at Manchester) A retired solicitor and two retired police officers faced trial charged with doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice. They were said to have proposed alterations to statements of police . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Contempt of Court, Media, Health Professions
Updated: 09 December 2022; Ref: scu.144428
