Day: 18 August 2025

‘On 16th April 2018, the GMC received information from the police that a 15-year-old patient had alleged that a consultant anaesthetist, Dr Sridharan Suresh, had sexually assaulted her. It opened an investigation. On 1st May 2018, the GMC contacted Dr Suresh, and the following day he was informed of the GMC investigation, and that the case would be sent to an Interim Orders hearing.’

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2 Hare Court, 29th July 2025

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‘The appeal of Dr Moodliar against the finding of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal that she had acted dishonestly, and its direction for her erasure from the register of doctors, raised a plethora of issues and makes useful reading in relation to them all. The misconduct was in relation to the writing of an expert report and was comprehensive – including dishonesty, inadequate experience, and plagiarism (summarised at §113 of the Judgment).’

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2 Hare Court, 29th July 2025

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‘A travel influencer stalked by a British man who travelled to her Indonesian home and threatened to kidnap her has strongly criticised police over the way her case was handled.’

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The Guardian, 15th August 2025

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‘The recently reported case Re Bingham Cemetery (No. 2) [2025] ECC S&N 3 concerns an application by Mrs Rita Elizabeth Harbury-Carlisle, otherwise Lady Rita Harbury-Carlisle, (‘Rita’) seeking the exhumation of the remains of her sister Valerie Allsop (‘Valerie’) and her father Eugene Arthur Allsop (‘Eugene’) from their grave in Bingham cemetery. Whilst the Chancellor could find no exceptional circumstances to justify the grant of a faculty for this recent petition, the judgment includes a discussion of the doctrine of res judicata – “a matter judged”, the legal doctrine that prevents the same parties from relitigating a claim or issue that has already been decided by a competent court. The judgment also includes a further consideration of the application of Re Blagdon Cemetery [2002] Fam 299 and Re Christ Church Alsager [1999] Fam 142.’

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Law & Religion UK, 18th August 2025

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‘The UK’s first transgender judge has launched a case against the UK in the European court of human rights challenging the process that led to the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.’

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The Guardian, 18th August 2025

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‘Cotham School v Bristol County Council & Anor [2025] EWHC 1382 (Ch) is a blockbuster of a case, guaranteed to excite the passions of any English woman or man. It concerns the status of a piece of land registered as a village green, the use of which as playing fields by a school is contested.’

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2 Hare Court, 29th July 2025

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‘It is not every High Court appeal where one of the advocates accuses the other of racism for their skeleton argument – but when the Middle East is the issue under discussion nothing is surprising.’

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2 Hare Court, 29th July 2025

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