Tung v Health Care Complaints Commission & Anor

• 1. Occupations
  2. › Medical Practitioners
  3. › Professional Discipline
  4. › Impairment
  5. › Distinction between impairment and lack of competence
  6. › Whether finding of likely future impact on capacity sufficient for deregistration
  7. › Whether present lack of competence required
  8. › Medical Practice Act 1992 (NSW), ss 39, 61, 63, 64(1)(a), Dictionary cll 2, 3
• 1. Occupations
  2. › Medical Practitioners
  3. › Professional Discipline
  4. › Deregistration
  5. › Power to order deregistration
  6. › Whether Tribunal addressed whether impairment meant practitioner not presently competent
  7. › Whether Tribunal considered alternatives to deregistration
  8. › Medical Practice Act 1992 (NSW), s 64(1)
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Procedural Fairness
  3. › Tribunals
  4. › Observations of demeanour
  5. › Whether tribunal required to draw observations of witness demeanour to attention of unrepresented party
  6. › Whether observations used as confirmation of expert evidence or as independent diagnosis
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Tribunals
  3. › Reasons
  4. › Whether tribunal failed to engage with evidence
  5. › Whether error in preferring one expert over another constitutes error of law

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