Judgments and Transcripts

Pal v General Medical Council 2004

1. Transcripts Day 1
2. Transcripts Day 2
3. Judgment Pal v GMC 2004
4. Representations after judgment
5. Judgment on the internet available for download through Baili

R v General Medical Council Ex Parte Pal 2009. Currently under litigation

1. The Permisison judgment won by me.
2. Judicial Review Judgment lost in 2009. To be continued.
2. Further judgments to follow.....

About this website

This website is about the General Medical Council's actions against a NHS whistleblower. They conducted a series of revolving door complaints against me between the years 2000-2009.

I am an evidence based NHS whistleblower who raised justified concerns on Ward 87 North Staffordshire NHS Trust in 1999. Many years later, the Care Quality Commission documents showed that the Trust had a increased mortality rate and higher litigation costs than Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.

Instead of conducting an investigation into the deaths on Ward 87, in the year 2000, the GMC conducted a unlawful "discreet inquiry" into my fitness to practise. On discovery of this in the year 2004, I sued the General Medical Council successfully. During the litigation, the GMC instigated a complaint on defamation. They later admitted their procedures do not deal with defamation despite subjecting me to a six month investigation before clearing me.

The General Medical Council subsequently instigated a spurious complaint on a "link" on the internet and my use of the term "psychiatrist".Having subjected me to a six month investigation whilerecklessly spreading dishonesties to the Trust I was working for, the GMC cleared me. The Trust in question fired me on the GMC's word and the General Medical Council subsequently went on to term it a "resignation" in court. To date, the General Medical Council have not been able to establish a resignation of any kind. Effective as of 2007, my references were stigmatised with a termination of employment and all my future application forms required a declaration of the GMC's spurious investigation. This prejudice to future employment is well understood by all doctors.

To prevent vexatious complaints against doctors, I challenged the General Medical Council in court in 2009. Unfortunately, due to judicial errors, the case did not have the result we expected. Permission to hear the case was won. Sadly, the actual case did not succeed at final hearing. It was heard by Justice Collins who was effectively persuaded by the GMC's blatant dishonesties.

The case though continues following the conflict between R v GMC Ex Parte Pal and R v GMC Ex Parte Remedy UK. The assessment to ensure there is a balance between doctors' and the complainants interests is yet to be analysed by higher courts. The story has not ended.

In the meantime, I have sought to write my thoughts on being a whistleblower, the character assassinations conducted by the GMC and its associates. The GMC networks fairly well and their vested interests have always been clear to all in the medical profession. In 2011, the General Medical Council issued an apology for their behaviour against me.

This is the reality of whistleblowing in the National Health Service. In addition, the domino effect of the entrenched defamation caused by the GMC is often never ending. This website is designed to raise these important issues because there is no media support for whistleblowers who face this kind of establishment assassination. We have attempted to detail this in our paper that can be downloaded through this petition - Whistleblowing and Patient Safety.

Members of the public and journalists may find this summary of the General Medical Council written by me useful.

I hope that this website goes some way to show how difficult life is for a NHS Whistleblower. I raised concerns in 1998, the repercussions are still ongoing in 2012. In 2004, Judge Harris compared the GMC to a totalitarian regime. Its failures in public safety and its inability to regulate doctors fairly is detailed very well by the media.

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