THE High Court has struck a retired Cork doctor off the Medical Register after upholding findings that he was guilty of gross professional misconduct arising from secretly videotaping female patients and carrying out inappropriate internal examinations of them.

A DOCTOR accused of indecently assaulting dozens of his female patients has demanded that the Medical Council allow him confront his accusers in public.

The Dr James Barry's sex case took a sensational turn today when an order was made prohibiting the listing of the trial.

Doctor James Barry was back in Cork District Court today to face over 200 sexual assault charges arising out of complaints by 38 former patients at his general practice in the city.

VIDEOTAPES and documents had not been disclosed, but the door was still open to a Cork doctor, to secure assistance from the London-based Medical Defence Union (MDU), if he co-operates with them, the High Court was told yesterday.