Mick Clifford: Bizarre sick note case drags on while siblings live under cloud for 11 years

Eleven years after their arrests over alleged fake sick notes, the Margiotta siblings remain entangled in legal and professional limbo
Mick Clifford: Bizarre sick note case drags on while siblings live under cloud for 11 years

Dr Tony Margiotta leaving court after the case in March 2019. Pictures: Collins Courts

The use of sick notes in the workplace has long been a matter of controversy. Media investigations over the years have shown some doctors are willing to provide a patient with a sick note on the flimsiest of bases.

The Margiotta case, however, is of a completely different order. 

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