The pathologist for the prosecution in the Sally Clark murder case, who failed to disclose results of microbiological tests on her second baby, has won an appeal against his removal from the UK Home Office register of forensic pathologists.

An appeal panel of three people, headed by a retired appeal court judge, Sir Paul Kennedy, held that the ruling by a home office disciplinary tribunal in 2005 removing Alan Williams from the register was “unreasonable” (BMJ 2005;331:1355 doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1355-a).

He was “a competent pathologist who made one serious …