The General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003

Appeal to a court or sheriff against a decision of an Appeal Panel U.K.

22.—(1) An appeal from any decision of an Appeal Panel shall lie to the relevant court but must be brought within 28 days beginning with the date on which the appellant was notified of the decision.

(2) In any appeal under this article, the Board shall be the respondent.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the relevant court may—

(a) dismiss the appeal;

(b) allow the appeal and quash the decision appealed against;

(c) substitute for the decision appealed against any other decision the Board could have made; or

(d) remit the case to the Board to be disposed of in accordance with the directions of the court or sheriff,

and may make such order as to costs (or, in Scotland, expenses) as it, or he, as the case may be, thinks fit.

(4) Where the appeal is against a decision of an Appeal Panel made under article 21(5), the relevant court may—

(a) dismiss the appeal; or

(b) allow the appeal and—

(i) remit the case to the Board to be disposed of in accordance with directions of the court or sheriff, or

(ii) make any decision that the Board could have made.

(5) In this article, “relevant court” means the county court or in the case of a hospital, institution, general practitioner or person whose address is in Scotland, the sheriff in whose sheriffdom the address is situated.