Dennis v UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

(1993) 4 Med LR 252

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION, DIVISIONAL COURT

Lord Justice WATKINS, and Mr Justice OGNALL

Professional conduct — State enrolled nurse — Discipline — “Misconduct” — Criminal offences — Road traffic offences — Removal of name from professional register of nurses by professional conduct committee — Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Professional Conduct) Rules 1987 — Competence of inquiry to consider offences for which absolute discharges were made by magistrates' courts — Appeal — Professional conduct — Nurse — Whether appellate court entitled to consider procedural irregularity even though ground not stated in grounds of appeal — Whether penalty of removal of name from register was too severe — Whether it was procedural irregularity that professional conduct committee failed to correct representative's misinterpretation of meaning of “misconduct”