The Wislang Case

This month, November 2006, the Medical Council of New Zealand plays host to key sessions of the 7th conference, in Wellington, of the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities (IAMRA). This will provide the Council, as the registering...

If the incaution shown towards it by the Privy Council in its opinion on the Wislang case is anything to go by, after more than three hundred years of increasing control of it through countless learned judgments on judicial review and its English predecessor...

Events in the Wislang case proved beyond reasonable doubt that prosecutor Kate Davenport's spectacular skill in concocting false charges is matched only by her ability to conjure up mythical legal personalities. Her personality of choice in the Wislang...

When Dr Wislang appeared before the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal for the agreed sole purpose of making submissions as to penalty on a simple charge he had already admitted to, he did so trusting that the Tribunal would conduct its hearing...

Amongst the end products of the disciplinary proceedings against Dr Wislang, of greatest concern must be the mis-assessment, by the tribunal and the Medical Council, of his medical competence. That mis-assessment became the principal point on judicial...