A tribunal which allowed a Belfast neurologist voluntary removal from the medical register may never have legitimately got underway, the High Court has heard.
FORMER patients of Dr Michael Watt are mounting a legal challenge to a decision that prevented a full hearing into concerns about the consultant's work going ahead.
THE chair of a Public Inquiry into the Dr Michael Watt recall scandal has revealed his "extreme disappointment" at a decision preventing a full hearing into the medic's work going ahead.
PATIENTS of Dr Michael Watt last night said a decision allowing the consultant to remove himself from the medical register, which will prevent an open hearing into his work, was “gut wrenching”.
AN inquiry into the Dr Michael Watt recall scandal has defended its role following concerns about its handling of a psychiatric assessment that deemed him medically unfit to give evidence.