UK court upholds SDS expert ban.U.K. physicians as expert witnesses are not immune from disciplinary action by the General Medical Council. Sir Roy Meadow Professor Sir Samuel Roy Meadow (born 1933) is a former British paediatrician notorious for his 1977 academic paper on Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), in which he claimed that parents fabricate their child's illness. , a distinguished pediatrician pe·di·a·tri·cian or pe·di·at·rist n. A specialist in pediatrics. and expert in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or crib death, sudden, unexpected, and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant under one year of age (usually between two weeks and eight months old). evidence, was struck off by the doctors' regulatory body after giving misleading statistical evidence that helped convict a mother of murdering her children. His evidence in two other cases was discounted by appeal courts, when they overturned those convictions as well. The appeal court overruled a lower court that concluded that Sir Roy, and all other expert witnesses, are immune from disciplinary action. The GMC GMC See: Guaranteed Mortgage Certificate stated that it recognizes that it is in the public interest for doctors to give evidence, "honestly and truthfully, and within their competence." The GMC does not believe in "extending the principle of immunity in a way that placed doctors and other professionals beyond the reach of their regulator." www.gmc-uk.org |
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