Annual report of the Council with balance sheet of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society : 1945

  • London and Counties Medical Protection Society
Date:
1945
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Credit: Annual report of the Council with balance sheet of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society : 1945. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 that all evidence before the Disciplinary Tribunal be given orally on oath save for good and sufficient reason except evidence as to character which may be given in writing; 8. that each party furnish to the other, not later than ten days before the hearing of the case a list of the documents on which they propose to rely; 9. that notice to produce and admit be not permitted; 10. that the Evidence Act, 1938, be not made applicable to the proceedings of the Disciplinary Tribunal; 11. that the parties be entitled to require the Disciplinary Tribunal to subpcena any deponent to an affidavit to give oral evidence; 12. that only those documents which are agreed by the parties and such others as are proved in evidence be placed before the Disciplinary Tribunal; 13. (a) that a summing up by the Legal Assessor be not required unless it is requested by the Disciplinary Tribunal or one of the parties when in the opinion of that party a point of law is involved; (b) that if and when the Legal Assessor sums up, he be obliged to do so in the presence of the parties; (c) that the Legal Assessor be a barrister or a solicitor experi- enced in the practice of the Courts of Common Law and of not less than ten years’ standing; 14. that provision be made for a right of appeal to the High Court by the Respondent on points of law only; 15. that in the event of an appeal any order for erasure be sus- pended until after the disposal of the appeal, subject to the appeal being entered within seven days from the date of the order; _16. that the Disciplinary Tribunal be empowered (in addition to the present penalty of erasure) to administer other penalties short of erasure, viz., suspension for varying periods or censure of differing degrees; 17. that the Disciplinary Tribunal be empowered to award costs against a Complainant or Respondent and that machinery be established for taxing the costs; 18. that the General Medical Council be given the power, but not the exclusive power, to conduct prosecutions for infringements of the Medical Act, 1858; 19. that the words “professional misconduct” be substituted for the words “infamous conduct in a professional respect” and used in the same connection; 20. that the Rules of Procedure relating to Penal Enquiries be not subject to the approval of a Judicial Authority;
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