RULING RESTORES REPUTATIONS

By ruling against the medical council’s findings, Mr Justice Kelly has cast a harsh spotlight on their disciplinary practices, writes Conor Ryan.

THE judgement of Mr Justice Peter Kelly has cast a harsh spotlight on the workings and discipline practices of the medical council.

In 94 pages the High Court judge and medical-legal specialist ripped to shreds the manner in which the medical council’s fitness to practice committee carried out an inquiry on two men who produced the initial reports on disgraced obstetrician Michael Neary in 1998.