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Seriousness of offending
Seriousness of offending
The appellant was convicted of numerous incidents of violence against his wife. The starting point is that his conduct was serious. It was rendered all the more serious by the aggravating factors identified by the MPT.
- Heading
- 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