Vaidya v GMC [2007]

EWHC 1497 (Admin)

Dr Vaidya, convicted of a number of offences of serious professional misconduct after proceedings held in his absence, and ordered to have his name erased from the Medical Register. The appeal was requested to decide whether the proceedings should have been adjourned as his solicitor had requested, to enable him to be represented. The Judge ruled against him, but quashed one of the findings of serious professional misconduct (relating to his failure to disclose a conviction to his employers: that conviction was later quashed) and remitted the case to the Fitness to Practise Panel to reconsider the sanction of erasure.

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