An appeal by a Cork doctors who lost his High Court challenge to a decision of the Medical Council's Fitness to Practise Committee that an inquiry into allegations of professional misconduct be held in private rather than in public has been fixed by the Supreme Court for November 19th.
Dr James M. Barry, Glanmire, Co Cork, is at the centre of allegations that he videotaped women patients.
He claimed in the High Court that he had a constitutional right to have the inquiry held in public.
Because of the action taken by the doctor, a number of cases already before the council's Fitness to Practise Committee, including an inquiry into allegations against Dr Moira Woods, have been deferred pending the court's decision.
The committee made a decision last November to hold the inquiry into allegations of professional misconduct against Dr Barry in private under Part V of the Medical Practitioners Act 1978.