Roylance v General Medical Council

[1999] Lloyd's Rep Med 139

PRIVY COUNCIL

Lord SLYNN, Lord CLYDE, and Lord HOBHOUSE of Woodborough

General Medical Council — Professional Conduct Committee — Whether conduct of hearing by the President of the GMC sitting as chairman of the Committee was such as to give rise to an appearance of bias — Whether affidavit evidence relating to the deliberations of the Committee in camera should be admitted — Scope of “professional misconduct” in the medical profession outside the field of clinical misconduct — Whether penalty of erasure from the Medical Register appropriate