Minutes of the General Medical Council's thirty-eighth session, held on November 17 to 21, 1885 : with an appendix containing the Council's amended standing orders.

  • General Medical Council.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Minutes of the General Medical Council's thirty-eighth session, held on November 17 to 21, 1885 : with an appendix containing the Council's amended standing orders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    8. Any answer, evidence, or statement forwarded, or appli- cation made by the accused person between the date of the issue of the notioe and the day named for the hearing of the charge, shall be dealt with by the President in such manner as he, under the advice of the Soi/ICItor, shall think fit. 9. At the hearing of the case by the General Council the meeting shall be attended by the Solicitor to the Council to conduct the case, and by Counsel to act as judicial assessor The accused person may be represented or assisted by a Counsel or Solicitor. 10. The Solicitor shall first state to the General Council the facts of the case, and the charge alleged against the accused person, and shall then lay before the General Council the evi- dence in support of the charge. 11. At the conclusion of the evidence in support of the charge, the accused person, or his representative, shall be invited by the President to address the Council in answer to the charge. 12. Upon the conclusion of the whole case, the General Council shall deliberate thereon. The deliberations shall be in private : all strangers being required to withdraw. 13. At the conclusion of the deliberations, the President shall call upon the General Council to vote as follows :— (1) In the case of a practitioner who has been con- victed of a felony, misdemeanour, crime, or offence, Whether, the practitioner having been proved to the satisfaction of the Council to have been convicted of felony [misdemeanour, or, as the case may be], the Registrar shall be directed to erase his name from the Medical Register. (2) In the case of a practitioner accused of infamous conduct, H (a) Whether, in the opinion of the Council, the accused person has or has not committed the offence or offences charged against him : (h) Whether the offence, or offences, is, or are, in the opinion of the Council, infamous conduct in a profes- sional respect; (c) Whether the Registrar shall be directed to erase his name from the Medical Register.