Published 1 April 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1360
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1360

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Southall appeals to overturn GMC’s rulings against him

Clare Dyer

1 BMJ

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Lawyers for the paediatrician David Southall this week accused the General Medical Council of reversing the burden of proof and requiring him to prove his innocence, as he launched a High Court appeal against a finding of serious professional misconduct.

In a four day hearing that began on Tuesday 31 March Dr Southall is appealing against a GMC fitness to practise panel’s findings of fact, the misconduct ruling, and a decision to strike him off the medical register.

The fitness to practise panel, which had a lay majority, ruled in December 2007 that he had inappropriately accused a mother of murdering her child, kept "special case files" on children that were not sufficiently "signposted" for hospital staff to access, and sent an unsolicited copy of a child protection letter to an unnamed "consultant paediatrician" at the parents’ local hospital, where the child was not receiving treatment, and without their consent.

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