General Dental Council v Harper
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judge | Mr Justice Holgate |
Judgment Date | 05 April 2017 |
Neutral Citation | [2017] EWHC 856 (Admin) |
Court | Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court) |
Docket Number | CO/1523/2017 |
Date | 05 April 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 856 (Admin)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London WC2A 2LL
Mr Justice Holgate
CO/1523/2017
Mr A dos Santos (instructed by the General Dental Council) appeared on behalf of the Appellant
The Respondent did not attend and was not represented
MR DOS SANTOS: I appear on behalf of the claimant in this matter, the General Dental Council. This is an application to extend an interim suspension order.
Before I turn to the application itself, can I deal with two matters of housekeeping. My Lord, no-one appears either on behalf of the respondent or the respondent herself.
Can I just confirm that I do have in my possession a certificate of service showing that service was effected upon the respondent or defendant on 27 March and that very same day she emailed a response saying, "To whom it may concern, thank you for information. I will not be attending." She is cognizant of today's hearing and has determined not to attend.
The second part, my Lord, is that I served a skeleton argument last week.
I have that. Thank you.
MR DOS SANTOS: It may not have reached my Lord as early as I had hoped.
These applications are made quite a lot by various regulatory or professional bodies. The important thing is to make sure that if the court grants an extension of time that hopefully it will be the last time that it will be necessary, rather than having repeat applications. That is why I asked about the arrangements made for the conclusion of the conduct proceedings, because effectively the relevant committee, the PCC, has made its determination on misconduct. It is just simply a question of sanction, is it not?
MR DOS SANTOS: It has determined the facts but the next stage of the course is —
They have not determined whether it amounted to misconduct?
MR DOS SANTOS: ( Inaudible) for misconduct has not been determined yet, no.
It does not sound very difficult.
MR DOS SANTOS: It is not difficult but one tends to move very quickly from that process on to sanctions.
How long will the hearing take, one day?
MR DOS SANTOS: One day.
You have a date in May?
MR DOS SANTOS: 4 May.
You have the information that was holding the committee up back in February. Is it not possible to say now whether or not the relevant committee can be convened in May?
MR DOS SANTOS: The committee is set to convene on 4 May.
There was some point being raised by you about composition of the committee.
MR DOS SANTOS: Part of the reason, most likely, why it is 4 May rather...
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