Health Care Complaints Commission v Suri [2024] NSWCATOD 195

Civil and Administrative Tribunal New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Health Care Complaints Commission v Suri [2024] NSWCATOD 195 Hearing dates: 21 and 22 October 2024 Date of orders: 3 December 2024 Decision date: 03 December 2024 Jurisdiction: Occupational Division Before: Le Poer Trench ADCJ, Principal Member Dr H Haikal-Mukhtar, Senior Member Dr P Lye, Senior Member D Telford, General Member Decision: (1) The Respondent is guilty of both unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct. (2) The matter is listed for the Stage 2 hearing on 12 March 2025 Catchwords: HEALTH – medical practitioner – misconduct and discipline – unsatisfactory professional conduct – professional misconduct Legislation Cited: Health Care Complaints Commission Complaints Act 1993 (NSW) Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW) 2009 (NSW) (National Law) Health Practitioner Regulation (New South Wales) Regulation 2016 (NSW) Cases Cited: Chen v Health Care Complaints Commission (2017) 95 NSWLR 334 Health Care Complaints Commission v Bolton [2021] NSWCATOD 160 Health Care Complaints Commission v FLX [2022] NSWCATOD 185 Health Care Complaints Commission v Le [2022] NACATOD 85 Health Care Complaints Commission v Liu [2016] NSWCATOD 133 Health Care Complaints Commission v Tran [2024] NSWCATOD 1 Texts Cited: Medical Board of Australia, good Medical Practice; A Code for Doctors in Australia (March 2014) Category: Principal judgment Parties: Health Care Complaints Commission (Applicant) Dr Rahul Suri (Respondent) Representation: Counsel: D Fuller (Applicant) P Dwyer SC (Respondent)