A Medical Tribunal that makes protective orders not sought by the Health Care Complaints Commission, without giving the practitioner an opportunity to be heard on those orders, commits a breach of procedural fairness. Where the characterisation of a medical practitioner's conduct as professional misconduct or unsatisfactory professional conduct depends on contested medical evidence, the question should be remitted to the specialist Tribunal rather than determined by the Court of Appeal.
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