AC-2024-LON-003354 - [2025] EWHC 2270 (Admin)

Fecha: 05-Sep-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2270 (Admin)

Case No: AC-2024-LON-003354

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING'S BENCH DIVISION

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 05/09/2025

Before :

THE HONOURABLE MRS JUSTICE LAMBERT

Between :

THE KING

on the application of

(1) ANAESTHETISTS UNITED LIMITED

(2) MARION CHESTERTON

(3) BRENDAN CHESTERTON

Claimant

- and –

GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL

- and –

(1) BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

(2) ASSOCIATION OF ANAESTHESIA ASSOCIATES

(3) FACULTY OF PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES

(4) ROYAL COLLEGE OF ANAESTHETISTS

Defendant

Interested Parties

Thomas de la Mare KC, Naina Patel KC and Emily MacKenzie (instructed by Bindmans LLP) for the Claimants

Rory Dunlop KC and Peter Mant KC (instructed by the General Medical Council) for the Defendant

Jenni Richards KC and Adam Boukraa (instructed by TLT LLP) for the First Interested Party

The Second, Third and Fourth Interested Parties were not represented

Hearing dates: Hearing dates: 14-15 May and 9 June 2025

Further submissions 24 and 25 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 14:00 on 5^th September 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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THE HONOURABLE MRS JUSTICE LAMBERT