Where a question of fitness to practise has been subsequently determined adversely to the practitioner by a higher or coordinate court on a broader basis, there is no utility in the public interest in granting leave to appeal from an earlier favourable determination on a narrower basis. The question whether a Court of Appeal decision in original jurisdiction has the same binding force as one in appellate jurisdiction was expressly left open.
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