In this edition we have included reviews of the following cases:

• Arunachalam v General Medical Council, a case in which the Court set aside the sanction of erasure and held that, when considering sanction, a panel had simply listed the mitigating factors rather than properly evaluating them.
•  General Medical Council v Somuah-Boateng, a successful appeal for the GMC in which they persuaded the Court that erasure was the appropriate sanction for a doctor who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable former patient.
• Basson v General Medical Council, in which the Court dismissed an appeal against a panel’s finding of sexual motivation, but in doing so gave a useful definition of what sexual motive means.
• Yasin v General Medical Council, a case in which the Court upheld the sanction of erasure for a doctor who had sexually assaulted two female junior colleagues in the workplace.

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