Discrimination: Doctors' registration requirements challenged
This report relates to 2 case(s)
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Khan v General Medical Council [1994] IRLR 646 CA (1 other report)
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Rovenska v General Medical Council [1994] IRLR 646 EAT (0 other reports)
In Khan v General Medical Council, the Court of Appeal holds that a doctor's right to apply to a review board for a review of the Council's decision not to grant him full registration was a proceeding "in the nature of an appeal", and so an industrial tribunal could not consider his complaint of racial discrimination. However, in Rovenska v General Medical Council, the EAT holds that the operation of discretionary rules on exemptions by the GMC was a continuing act until revoked or revised, and so a complaint of racial discrimination could not be time-barred.
Section 12 of the Race Relations Act 1976 (the RRA) makes it unlawful for a qualifying body "which can confer an authorisation or qualification which is needed for, or facilitates, engagement in a particular profession or trade" to discriminate against a person on the ground of race in respect of the authorisation or qualification it confers.