Sometimes a decision gets me thinking about my cases from a different perspective (in this case, from the Respondent's perspective). This is one of them, so I thought I'd share what my take home pointers were.

The British Medical Association (BMA) is calling for the General Medical Council (GMC) to lose its right (since 2015) to appeal decisions reached by its own fitness to practise hearings before a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT).

The NMC receives over 5,000 FtP referrals a year so an overhaul of the system that deals with these cases is a pretty big deal.

Pressure from the medical community rallying behind Dr Bawa-Garba, who was struck off following the GMC's appeal of the MPT decision to suspend her for 12 months, may have swayed the Court of Appeal.

In handing down Judgment yesterday in the Wingate and Evans and Malins appeals, Lord Justice Rupert Jackson confirmed that integrity and dishonesty are separate concepts, lending support to regulators, such as the SRA

Potentially changed the long standing Ghosh test on dishonesty by removing the subjective element

The Supreme Court has handed down its judgment in the case of Michalak v General Medical Council

A look at a decision that could have far reaching consequences for regulatory bodies.