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PRESS RELEASE 5 September 2009:

The case of Dr Jennifer Colman is now set down to be heard in the Court of Appeal in London on the 5th and 6th of December 2011 before three Lord Justices of Appeal. Dr Hickey's case has also been given a date.

Although Dr Colman enjoyed success before two Lord Justices of Appeal at the permisson stage of the Judicial Review and Dr Hickey was also given permission the case was heard in May 2010 and dismissed before a single High Court Judge in July 2010.

Dr Krishna Korlipara, GMC and panel member in Dr Colman's, case was cross examined by Leading Counsel at the May hearing, where it emerged that the panel had considered inadmissible evidence which lead to them erasing Dr Colman from the medical register. The inadmissible evidence was a matter of subjudice and waiting to be heard as part of an appeal in a Crown Court.

The GMC had known this at the time of the hearing in 1987 and  their committee clerk, Robert Gray, had written to the Registrar and told him that inadmissible evidence had been included and heard. He also said Dr Colman had grounds of appeal. The GMC then blamed their solcitors Waterhouse for what had happened and said they had not served them well. No one told Dr Colman or her legal team that this had happened.  The GMC has deliberately hidden a miscarriage of justice for twenty four years claiming that the papers were lost.

Although notices of appeal were immediately filed for both doctors, the cases then lay in the Court of Appeal for a year with requests to expedite left unanswered until Lord Justice Stanley Burnton ordered an oral hearing.

Mr Edward Fitzgerald QC and Mr Stephen Cragg of Doughty Street Chambers are representing Dr Colman. Mr Fitzgerald is a leading Human Rights barrister and joint head of chambers. Both counsel are members of Doughty Street's public law and actions against the police teams.

PRESS RELEASE 25 November 2009:

On Monday 23 November 2009 the case of Dr John Patrick Hickey was heard in the Administrative Court in London before Sir Thayne Forbes for permission to judicially review the decision of the GMC to strike him from the medical register in 1990. Sir Thayne Forbes gave a judgement at which time he granted permission for Dr Hickey to judicially review the findings against him by the GMC, and his erasure from the register. This is the second judgement on the use of draft determinations with predetermined sentences of erasure at the GMC during the presidencies of Lords Walton and Kilpatrick. On the following day, 24 November 2009, there was a Directions Hearing, also in the Administrative Court, in the case of Dr Jennifer Colman, who was granted permission in June. Sir Thayne Forbes heard legal arguments for 90 minutes on a range of issues. He also directed that for the sake of consistency and in the interests of justice Dr Hickey's case should be heard at the same time as Dr Colman's. There will be a substantive hearing of 4 days at a later date to be set down in the new year. Both doctors are represented by Mr Edward Fitzgerald QC and Mr Stephen Cragg of Doughty Street Chambers in London. Dr Colman is instructing in both cases as a barrister with Licensed Access.

The doctors wish to thank all those in the United Kingdom and the United States who continue to support them.

PRESS RELEASE 19 June 2009:

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 the case of Dr Jennifer Colman was heard in the Court of Appeal before Lady Justice Dame Janet Smith and Lord Justice Thomas for permission to judicially review the decision of the GMC to strike her from the medical register in 1987. Lord Justice Thomas gave a 12 minute judgement with which Dame Janet Smith agreed in which Dr Colman was given permission to judicially review the findings against her by the GMC. This is an unprecedented judgement for medical regulation in the UK. Lord Justice Thomas indicated that the procedural irregularities at the time were so serious that those involved in the original decisions taken against the doctor should appear at the full hearing later on. Dr John Patrick Hickey, previously an holistic general practitioner in the UK, and now resident in the USA, has also issued proceedings in the court on the same irregularities. Both doctors are represented by Mr Edward Fitzgerald QC and Mr Stephen Cragg of Doughty Street Chambers in London. Dr Colman may be contacted via her website at www.jennifer-colman.co.uk

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The GMC Justice website has been launched both in the UK and the USA in order to bring to a wider audience the systematic and intentional miscarriages of justice in the UK General Medical Council (GMC) towards doctors through its disciplinary hearings before their Professional Conduct Committee (PCC).

If you are a doctor reading this website who has worked in the UK and been struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council this is information which you need to know.

1. The GMC has abused a number of doctors systematically and intentionally through their unfair and biased PCC disciplinary hearings for a number of years.
2. In 2008 the GMC admitted that it had pre-determined the outcome of doctors’ hearings some weeks before PCC disciplinary panels convened for the hearing. As a result of these pre-determined outcomes doctors were struck off the register by PCC panels. Striking off is also known as erasure. Erasure is the same as obliteration.
3. GMC Presidents often chaired PCC hearings. In the case of one doctor the GMC President chaired his disciplinary hearing and used this method of a pre-determined sentence to strike him off.
4. The UK GMC has acted unlawfully and in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
5. Doctors have been denied natural justice. The GMC must act now to remedy this.
6. There are a number of doctors who are unaware that the GMC may have used this procedure on them.

What can you do?

1. Doctors who are working or may have worked in the UK must call upon the UK Government to launch a review of all past cases of erasure. Please contact you MP at the House of Commons, Westminster, London, SW1 0AA, asking him to support the call for a review of the GMC’s erasure cases.
2. Patients should support their medical workforce and write to their MPs asking them to raise the matter of biased and unfair practises by the GMC against doctors.
3. Doctors and patients know the GMC has not worked for them, protest and campaign for a fair system.
4. Journalists please publicise these GMC abuses through your own media outlet.