HARIS v GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL

[2021] Med LR Plus 22

COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

Before Lord Justice Newey, Lord Justice Phillips, and Lady Justice Andrews

Medical Practitioners' Tribunal - Fitness to practise - Sexual misconduct - Finding that non-clinically indicated intimate examinations of two patients were not sexually motivated - Appeal against finding by General Medical Council – High Court decision to quash finding - Doctor's appeal to Court of Appeal - Inferences of fact to be drawn from primary facts - Proper appellate approach to challenges to such inferences