The General Pharmaceutical Council’s Fitness to Practice Committee had been entitled to remove a locum from the register of pharmacists where it had used its expertise and experience to form the view that there was a risk that he would repeat behaviour that had led him to commit serious sexual offences and where he had shown little insight into his conduct.
CRIMINAL LAW FITNESS TO PRACTISE GENERAL PHARMACEUTICAL COUNCIL HEALTH PHARMACEUTICALS PHARMACISTS PROFESSIONS SEXUAL OFFENCES
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission had no standing to seek a declaration that abortion law in Northern Ireland was incompatible with ECHR art.3 and art.8 because it had not instituted proceedings by identifying any unlawful act or any actual or potential victim. Although the Supreme Court therefore had no jurisdiction to make a declaration of incompatibility, it considered that the current law was disproportionate and incompatible with art.8 insofar as it prohibited abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality and where pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.
ABORTION art.8 CRIMINAL LAW DECLARATIONS OF INCOMPATIBILITY ECHR 1950 art.3 HEALTH INCEST INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT JURISDICTION LOCUS STANDI NORTHERN IRELAND NORTHERN IRELAND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON RAPE RIGHT TO LIFE RIGHT TO RESPECT FOR PRIVATE AND FAMILY LIFE
A doctor’s rights under ECHR art.8 would not be breached by the police disclosing information which had been unlawfully obtained during their investigation into a patient’s allegation of sexual assault against him to the General Medical Council for the purposes of its inquiry into the doctor’s fitness to practise.
art.8(2) DISCLOSURE ECHR 1950 art.8(1) EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 1950 art.8 FITNESS TO PRACTISE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL HEALTH HUMAN RIGHTS INTERVIEW RECORDS LEGITIMATE AIM MEDICAL ACT 1983 s.35A POLICE POLICE INQUIRIES PRIVATE DOCUMENTS PROFESSIONS PROPORTIONALITY RIGHT TO RESPECT FOR PRIVATE AND FAMILY LIFE s.1(1)(a) s.3(5) s.35A(4) s.35A(6) s.35C(2) SEXUAL ASSAULT
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