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Deficient professional performance appealed

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which a doctor appealed against a decision of a fitness to practise panel that his name be erased from the medical register.

Woman sued hospital over fall

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which a woman sued the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin after she fell on a pathway when arriving to collect her mother from the Clinic.

Remark led to complaint to Equality Tribunal

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Equality Tribunal case in which a transsexual woman who had undergone reassignment surgery claimed that she was discriminated against by a hospital when a consultant referred to her by the wrong gender during the course of a consultation

Case raised issues of great public importance

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at the recent High Court case in which the Court was called upon to decide whether it should authorise the withdrawal of somatic support to a woman who was 15 weeks’ pregnant at the time of her death.

Did double life lead to psychiatric distress?

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which a former undercover police officer alleged that he suffered a psychiatric injury as a result of the failure of his employer to provide him with appropriate support during his period under cover.

Dentists’ body challenged fee increase

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which the British Dental Association challenged a decision of the regulatory body for dentists to increase the annual retention fee for 2015.

Doctor saw patients while on sick leave

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK Court of Appeal case in which a consultant haematologist, dismissed by her employer for continuing to see private patients while on sick leave, appealed an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision concerning her dismissal.

Man was in a vegetative state

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK Court of Protection decision in which a local health provider applied for a declaration that it was in a patient’s best interests that artificial nutrition and hydration be withdrawn from him.

Case on entry to the specialist register

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK Court of Appeal case in which the GMC appealed against a lower court decision requiring a Registration Appeal Panel to reconsider an application from a consultant surgeon to be registered as a specialist in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery.