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

Where fitness to practise proceedings are based on a criminal conviction, the purpose of MPT proceedings is not to punish the doctor for the offence for a second time but to consider whether the doctor’s fitness to practise is impaired as a result (para 116). The tribunal should bear in mind that the sentence imposed by the criminal court is “not necessarily a definitive guide to the seriousness of the offence” (para 117). There may have been personal circumstances that led the court to be lenient (para 117).