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Lewis' notion of "gross malpractice" suffered also from vagueness.
Instead, he was just suggesting, ever so politely, that news organisations might agree that "people guilty of gross malpractice should be struck off".
But Lewis indicated that gross malpractice could include offences just short of criminality, whatever these may be, as well phone hacking.
But yesterday, with the gross malpractice of elected officials in Washington still fresh in mind, I walked to the local polling place thinking about some of the stupidities of our democracy, grouping them into two categories: necessary and unnecessary.
The Labour leadership last week distanced itself from Lewis's call for the media industry to "consider whether people guilty of gross malpractice should be struck off", after it was widely interpreted as a call for a licensing scheme.
A senior figure in the opposition Labour Party, Ivan Lewis, has suggested that reporters be "struck off" if found guilty of "gross malpractice" — remarks that raised a howl of protest that he was advocating the same journalistic licensing as is practiced under Robert Mugabe's dictatorship in Zimbabwe.
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Forensic specialists said that at minimum the video depicts gross medical malpractice, and that it likely shows criminal evidence tampering.
By this formulation, a newspaper could be shut down for criticising the state visit to Uganda of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose regime is widely considered undemocratic and guilty of gross electoral malpractices.
O.J. McDuffie, a former Miami Dolphins receiver, has sued former and current team doctors, accusing them of malpractice and gross negligence in the treatment of a left big toe injury he suffered in 1999.
To release it in the direct aftermath of Charlottesville, in the throes of Harvey, is a gross example of pastoral & leadership malpractice.
There is a gross inequity between those doctors who choose to go into practices where the risks of malpractice aren't as high against those who take on risks every day.
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