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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7429 p666
2 December 2006

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Statutory Committee

Justice for everyone

From Dr M. E. King, MRPharmS

I was concerned to read the following comment by Lord Fraser of Carmyllie QC in the report of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Statutory Committee meeting (PJ, 11 November, p590): “we must be particularly attentive to the burden on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to establish its disciplinary case. The committee has therefore put the Society’s lawyer through the mill.”

Now I know from reading previous reports that Lord Fraser comes across as a fair and effective chairman of the Statutory Committee but I would like reassurances that the committee always ensures the Society establishes its case in a robust manner and that the Society’s lawyer is always put through the mill. Anything less and they are not doing their job with sufficient rigour both for and against any of the plaintiffs. The Statutory Committee is there to ensure justice is done for everyone not just the Society.

Martin King
Cardiff

The report made it clear that it was because the pharmacist concerned was neither present at the inquiry nor legally represented that the committee had a particular duty to “put the Society’s lawyer through the mill”. At most inquiries a lawyer representing the pharmacist would be present to challenge the case put by the Society’s lawyer and cross-examine the Society’s witnesses.
— EDITOR

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