Where a medical practitioner has engaged in reckless, unethical and illegal prescribing of drugs of addiction over a considerable period, persisting after a prior warning, and has given false testimony to the Tribunal suggesting lack of remorse, deregistration is the only appropriate order. A Tribunal that gives excessive weight to the personal consequences of deregistration to the practitioner at the expense of community protection commits appealable error.
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