Double jeopardy
The absence of any common law double jeopardy rule in professional misconduct proceedings was specifically noted in the case of R v Statutory Committee of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain [1981] 2 All ER 805 where disciplinary proceedings had been brought in respect of conduct for which there had been an acquittal. The absence of such a common law rule was assumed by the police disciplinary authorities in the case of R (on the application of Reynolds) v Commissioner for Police for the Metropolis [2003] EWCA Civ 4.Per Blake J in Selvarajan v General Medical Council [2008] EWHC 182.
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