This report relates a case in the Administrative Court in which Dr Rakesh Aga (“the Claimant”) successfully challenged the decision of the General Medical Council (“GMC”) on 10 December 2010 to the effect that he was guilty as misconduct. He judge stated that could not see any rational basis for the “misconduct” finding and that in [...]
GMC reinstate Dr Southall on doctor’s register
May 6, 2008 from
The GMC has admitted that it should not have banned David Southall from working as a doctor because it wrongly applied its new rules retrospectively according to the BBC but he remains barred from undertaking any child protection work. He faces a further disciplinary hearing in Manchester from 12th May in relation to breathing tank [...]
‘Climate of fear’ for paediatricians
April 17, 2008 from
The following aticle by Gabby Hinsliff appeared in the Guardian on the 13th April 2008As the GMC convenes over a child’s death, doctors are experiencing a growing sense of persecutionPaediatricians fear that they are facing a backlash because of their work with children, the medical regulator has been warned, as the controversial doctor struck off [...]
Lawyers fail to check on expert witnessess
January 3, 2008 from
Three out of four judges and lawyers make no checks on the qualifications of expert witnesses, whose evidence can be crucial to a finding of guilt or innocence, research suggests.The first study of its kind shows that the training of expert witnesses to give evidence is still patchy and unregulated, creating a continuing risk of [...]
The victimisation of David Southall is disastrous for abused children
December 31, 2007 from
The following article by appeared in the Sunday Observer on 9th December 2007.The GMC decision to strike this doctor off the medical register exposes its ignorance and leaves professionals in despair, says senior paediatrician Nigel SpeightLast week’s decision of the General Medical Council to strike distinguished paediatrician Dr David Southall off the register is causing [...]
Haunted
December 31, 2007 from
The following article by Sian Griffiths appeared in the Sunday Times on 9th December Haunted by the nightmare of the secret family courtsAfter being suspected of child abuse, the Ward family are out to change the family justice systemWhat do you think? Leave your comments in the box at the bottom of this pageWhen hospital [...]
Protect Me From Child Protectors
December 31, 2007 from
The following article by Ross Clark appeared in the Times on the 8th December 2007This year I was suspected of child abuse over an incident involving my daughter. I learnt some lessons I wasn’t surprised to hear the words “miscarriage of justice” and “Professor David Southall” mentioned in the same breath this week. What shocked [...]
Dr Southall Guilty of Serious Professional Misconduct – Struck Off
December 4, 2007 from
Controversial paediatrician Dr David Southall has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct and struck off the medical register. The General Medical Council decided last week that he had abused his position by accusing a mother of drugging and murdering her son. The GMC said Dr Southall had a “deep-seated attitudinal problem”. It is the [...]
Doctor Falsey Accuses Mother of Murder
December 3, 2007 from
A controversial paediatrician was found guilty of wrongly accusing a grieving mother of drugging and murdering her son. Dr David Southall claimed the mother killed her ten-year-old son after he was found hanged with a belt.He then accused the woman of harming her surviving son and urged social workers to take him into care.The General [...]
Dr David Southall Guilty of Serious Professional Misconduct
November 30, 2007 from
A controversial paediatrician inappropriately accused a bereaved mother of killing her son, the General Medical Council has found. The GMC decided Dr David Southall abused his position by accusing the woman of drugging and hanging her son. It will now decide whether Dr Southall is guilty of serious professional misconduct, and whether to strike him [...]
Have the Experts Let Keren Henderson Down?
November 22, 2007 from
This article by Lois Rogers appeared in the Times (here) on 18th November under the title The expert as judge and jury.After a host of miscarriages of justice based on discredited expert witnesses, calls are growing for radical reform of their use in court, writes Lois RogersYet another woman was sent to prison last week, [...]
Professor Southall Subject to Police Inquiry
September 18, 2007 from
The following article by James McCarthy appeared in the Wales on Sunday newspaper on the 9th September 2007A banned paediatrician whose evidence helped convict Sion Jenkins is being investigated by police for his part in an alleged child assault.Professor David Southall, who lives in Staffordshire, gave evidence at the former deputy headmaster’s trial nine years ago in [...]
Moves to lift privacy of family courts
July 10, 2007 from
The Sunday Telegraph reports that John Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, has applied to the High Court for permission to pass on details of 90 alleged miscarriages of justice in family proceedings to the General Medical Council, Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority and the Bar Council. This development follows claims in the same newspaper [...]
GMC V Professor Sir Roy Meadows
October 27, 2006 from
The Times has published the judgement in full of the GMC v Meadow: judgment in full Neutral Citation Number: [2006] EWCA Civ 1390Case No: CO/5763/2005 Essentially the judgement re-instates Sir Roy Meadow Meadow the paediatrician struck off by the General Medical Council for giving misleading evidence that helped to convict Sally Clark of murdering her [...]
MPs Call For Child Abuse Information
August 11, 2006 from
Acccording a Press Release on PRLEAP MP’s have requested information. The release states:- Have you or a member of your family been accused of MSBP/FII? Do you know of someone who has? Have you been threatened with an accusation of MSbP / FII?If so, a cross-party group of Members of Parliament needs your help.According to a [...]
The Attorney General intervenes in Meadow ruling
July 11, 2006 from
Attorney General in Court over Meadow ruling The Attorney General will today appeal against the ruling of Mr Justice Collins that the GMC should not have struck off Professor Sir Roy Meadow. That judgment (see Meadow v General Medical Council [2006] EWHC 146 (Admin)) extended the protection witnesses have from being sued for negligence or [...]
In good faith? A bad excuse – Article by Camilla Cavendish
March 3, 2006 from
There is an excellent article in The Times (2nd Mar 2006) written by Camilla Cavendish “Since the High Court overruled the General Medical Council and reinstated Professor Sir Roy Meadow it has been 12 days and counting. Yet the implications have not yet been fully understood. You can get away with being wrong, the judgment seems [...]
GMC to Appeal Ruling
March 2, 2006 from
According to a BBC newsreport the GMC is to seek leave to appeal against a High Court ruling giving expert witnesses immunity against disciplinary action. The ruling was made in the case of paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who had given evidence on cot death risk in the Sally Clark murder case. The General Medical [...]
Prof Meadows to Appeal Against Bar
January 24, 2006 from
Professor Sir Roy Meadow will begin a High Court challenge tomorrow against a decision by the General Medical Council to strike him off.The 72-year-old paediatrician was found guilty last July of serious professional misconduct over evidence he gave in the trial of Sally Clark, who was convicted but later cleared of murdering two of her [...]
Consultant Child Psychiatrist Reprimanded
October 16, 2005 from
Dr Quentin Spender, a senior lecturer and consultant in child & adolescent psychiatry was reprimanded by the GMC for concluding that one his patients has had been sexually abused by some, or all members of her when he had insufficient information on which to draw that conclusion.Dr Spender was also criticised for forming and expressing [...]
GMC Must Recognise and Deal with Vexatious Complaints Fast
August 9, 2005 from
According to letter sent to the British Medical Journal the GMC needs to develop a strategy and and deal with vexatious complaints fast “ The letter is written by 18 eminent medical practitioners including Prof. Sir Roy Meadow (now struck off) and David Southall (now found guilty of serious professional misconduct), multiple complaints by a small vocal pressure group are [...]
Professor Meadows Struck Off
July 19, 2005 from
The General Medical Council has struck off paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow after his “misleading” evidence in the Sally Clark case. The GMC announced on Friday that Sir Roy had been found guilty of serious professional misconduct. Sir Roy had stood by his evidence, but admitted his use of statistics at Mrs Clark’s 1999 trial [...]
BFMS Response to Lazaro Ruling
July 17, 2005 from
Shieldfield – Justice at last?This item was first published on the F.A.C.T. website on the 20th May 2005IntroductionNo BFMS member can be unaware of the scandal of the two falsely accused Newcastle nursery nurses, Chris Lillie and Dawn Reed, whose fight for justice seemed to be at and end with the appearance before the GMC [...]
GMC – Fitness to Practice Panel Rule in Favour of Dr San Lazaro
July 17, 2005 from
This item first appeared on the F.A.C.T. website on the 16th May 2005Judgement handed down by Fitness to Practise Panel (Conduct)Session dated 25 April – 13 May 2005St James’s Buildings, 79 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6FQDr Camille De Sam LazaroDr Lazaro: At the material times you were practising as a Consultant Paediatrician at the Lindisfarne Centre, [...]
Doctor justifies his role in baby death cases
July 2, 2005 from Leave a Comment
The multiple injuries of Sally Clark’s babies were detailed to the General Medical Council yesterday as a leading paediatricians defended his reputation against accusations that his evidence had led to her wrongful conviction for double murder.Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who is charged with serious professional misconduct for giving “seriously misleading and flawed” statistical evidence at [...]