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.
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".
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.
Judge Dame Janet Smith of High Court has been named to begin a public inquiry next month into some of these new cases of suspected murder and into how Dr. Shipman could have stockpiled morphine, altered medical records, gained the compliance of fellow doctors and otherwise gone undetected by the profession for so long despite such overwhelming evidence of gross malpractice.
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 for individual reporters.
But Lewis indicated that gross malpractice could include offences just short of criminality, whatever these may be, as well phone hacking.
To use a medical analogy, gross malpractice, generally practiced is the norm in wealth management.
He often finds that they never had Lyme and had an entirely different health problem that wasn't being treated". This allegation of gross medical malpractice is made regularly by Auwaerter and those of a like mind who suggest that most Lyme disease specialists are charlatans and snake-oil salespeople who treat naive Lyme patients for personal profit at the expense of patients' health.
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.
