Libman v General Medical Council

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1972
CourtPrivy Council
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103 cases
  • Preiss v General Dental Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 17 July 2001
    ...on which some reliance was placed for the General Dental Council in the argument of the present appeal, is the observation in Libman v General Medical Council [1972] AC 217, 221, suggesting that findings of a professional disciplinary committee should not be disturbed unless sufficiently o......
  • Dr. Emmanuel Dibua Nwabueze v The General Medical Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 6 April 2000
    ...Medical Council [1999] 1 W.L.R. 1293) and the Committee in this case had not given reasons. 62In Libman v. General Medical Council [1972] A.C. 217, 221A-B Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone L.C. said that the only circumstances in which an appellate court can reverse a view of the facts taken......
  • R Ellen Mafico v Nursing and Midwifery Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 21 January 2014
    ...out of tune with the evidence to indicate with reasonable certainty that the evidence had been misread' (per Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone LC in Libman v General Medical Council [1972] AC 217 at 221F more recently confirmed in R(Campbell) v General Medical Council [2005] 1 WLR 3488 at [23]......
  • Re Lopez Joseph Francis
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 27 January 1976
    ...sitting in judgment on a colleague would be content to condemn on a mere balance of probabilities. In Libman v General Medical Council [1972] AC 217 the appellant, a consultant physician, was found guilty serious of professional misconduct by the Disciplinary Committee of the General Medica......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2004, December 2004
    • 1 December 2004
    ...3 SLR 151 (‘Chia Yang Pong’) at [7]. The High Court affirmed Lord Hailsham”s observations in Libman Julius v General Medical Council[1972] AC 217 at 221 that findings of disciplinary committees should not be easily contested unless it could be shown that something was ‘clearly wrong’ on one......
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2010, December 2010
    • 1 December 2010
    ...indicate with reasonable certainty that the evidence had been misread’, citing Lord Hailsham in Julius Libman v General Medical Council [1972] AC 217 at 221: Huang Danmin at [57]. Disciplinary bodies with expert knowledge of the seriousness of an act were better positioned than a court to k......

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