AC-2025-CDF-000062 - [2025] EWHC 2619 (Admin)

This is an appeal under section 40 of the Medical Act 1983 (“the Act”) against the decision of a Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal (“the MPT” or “the Tribunal”) to erase the appellant’s name from the Medical Register. The proceedings before the Tribunal concerned the appellant’s fitness to practise as a doctor following his conviction in the Crown Court at Swansea for one offence of controlling or coercive behaviour against his wife, contrary to section 76(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2015.

The Tribunal concluded that the appellant’s fitness to practise was impaired by reason of the conviction. The appellant does not challenge that conclusion. His grounds of appeal are limited to an appeal against sanction. He submits that the MPT ought to have suspended him, and should not have erased his name from the Register.

The appellant was represented by Counsel before the MPT. Appearing before me in person, he advances three grounds of appeal:

On behalf of the General Medical Council (“GMC”), Mr Jack Anderson (who did not appear below) resists the appeal and submits that the Tribunal was entitled to conclude that erasure was the only appropriate sanction. He submits that such a sanction was not excessive or disproportionate on the facts of the case.