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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2619 (Admin)
Case No: AC-2025-CDF-000062
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
CARDIFF DISTRICT REGISTRY
Cardiff Civil Justice Centre
2 Park Street, Cardiff, CF10 1ET
Date: 10 October 2025
Before :
MRS JUSTICE FARBEY DBE
Between :
DR MUHAMMAD ASAD HAROON | Appellant |
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GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL | Respondent |
The Appellant appeared in person
Jack Anderson (instructed by General Medical Council) for the Respondent
Approved Judgment
Hearing dates: 7 and 10 October 2025
MRS JUSTICE FARBEY DBE:
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- Introduction
- Legal framework
- Sanctions guidance
- Proportionality
- Mitigating and aggravating factors
- Treatment of criminal convictions
- Suspension
- Erasure
- GMC Policy: Good Medical Practice
- The facts
- Proceedings before the MPT
- Remorse
- Insight
- Risk of repetition
- Impairment
- Sanction
- Appellant’s overarching submissions
- The approach of the Guidance to violent offences
- MPT’s approach to insight and remorse
- Ground 1: Failure to balance aggravating and mitigating factors appropriately
- Ground 2: Failure to apply the Guidance and precedents correctly
- Other cases
- Guidance
- Public perception
- Ground 3: Error in the determination of sanction
- Seriousness of offending
- Insight and remediation
- Conclusions