High court judge quashes decision to strike off gynaecologist for dishonesty

A medical practitioners tribunal which decided that a doctor was dishonest in treating a couple who were friends for free and later sending them an invoice, had reached a conclusion that “no reasonable tribunal could conceivably have reached,” a High Court judge has ruled.

Mr Justice Collins quashed the decision, made last December, to strike consultant gynaecologist Joseph Onwude from the medical register, subject to his right of appeal.1

Collins held that the tribunal’s decision that …