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Who? Shazia Khan, a founding partner of Cole Khan Solicitors, London.
Why is she in the news? Successfully represented Omer Karim, a consultant urologist, in a landmark race discrimination claim against the General Medical Council at Reading Employment Tribunal. Khan said the GMC subjected her client to a prolonged discriminatory fitness to practise prosecution.
Thoughts on the case: ‘This is a landmark judgment in which my client successfully sued his regulator, the General Medical Council, for breaches of the Equality Act 2010. The tribunal expressed concern about the level of complacency and operation of discrimination in the work of the GMC and discrimination infecting the referral process. The GMC’s announcement to appeal the ET’s judgment is a convenient distraction from the glaringly obvious, that disparity of treatment exists in disciplinary investigations and prosecutions of white and BAME doctors. Leaving these inequalities to fester is institutionalised discriminat