Medical Practitioner in UK Law

  • General Medical Council v Hiew
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 Abril 2007
    ... ... Bean J dated 17 October 2006 extending, for a period of six months, an order for the suspension of Dr Hiew's registration as a medical practitioner previously made by an Interim Orders Panel (“IOP”) of the General Medical Council (“the GMC”). The order was made on an interim basis. That ... ...
  • Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 11 Marzo 2015
    ... ... Intervener (General Medical Council) ... Andrew Smith QC ... (Instructed by GMC ... to the treatment was so obvious that no prudent medical practitioner could fail to warn of the risk, save in an emergency or where there was ... ...
  • Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
    • House of Lords
    • 04 Febrero 1993
    ... ... In the eyes of the medical world and of the law a person is not clinically dead so long as the brain ... cannot look after himself or herself, whether as a medical practitioner or otherwise, that responsibility cannot lawfully be shed unless ... ...
  • Meadow v General Medical Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Octubre 2006
    ... ... Mr Henderson was concerned that to draw the line at dishonesty or recklessness could mean that a practitioner who gave seriously defective evidence which was honestly given but resulted from for example ill health was able to continue in practice to the ... ...
  • McKay v Essex Area Health Authority
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Febrero 1982
    ... ... tissues and full particulars of the first plaintiff's current medical condition will be served in due course upon the defendants when it has ... when a pregnancy is terminated by a registered medical practitioner if two registered medical practitioners are of the opinion, formed in good ... ...
  • M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 29 Junio 1995
    ... ... by relatives, neighbours, the police, the family's general practitioner, the head teacher of the school which the two older children attended, the ... between "social service departments, the police service, medical practitioners, community health workers, the education service and others ... ...
  • Chester v Afshar
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Octubre 2004
    ... ... performed, might lead to a seriously adverse result, known in medical parlance as cauda equina syndrome. The existence of such a duty is not in ... back pain and had been referred to him by another medical practitioner with a view to surgery. Three days later, on 21 November 1994, Mr Afshar ... ...
  • Roy v Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Family Practitioner Committee
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Febrero 1992
    ... ... 3 I entirely agree with this ... 4 Here the respondent is a medical practitioner whose name is on the list of those providing general medical services in the area administered by the appellant Family Practitioner ... ...
  • Gillies v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Enero 2006
    ... ... it is alleged that there was a reasonable apprehension that the medical member of a disability appeal tribunal was biased. The First Division of ... reports for the Benefits Agency as an examining medical practitioner ("EMP"). Between 1990 and 1998 she was engaged for this purpose by the ... ...
  • Jones v Kaney
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 Marzo 2011
    ... ... [1905] AC 480 was a case where a claim was brought against a medical witness in respect of statements made in preparation of a witness ... In that case a medical practitioner, whom the pursuer had employed as her professional adviser with a view to ... ...
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