The appeal hearing which will determine whether Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri can continue to practise medicine is due to conclude today.
A decision will then be made on whether or not his fitness to practise has been impaired.
The doctor was a given a formal warning by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service earlier this year after he admitted and was found guilty of a number of serious failings – including removing the ovaries of two women without their consent, carrying out intimate examinations without a chaperone on multiple women, and failing to arrange treatment for another patient.
The incidents all occurred when Dr Shokouh-Amiri was a consultant at the Medical Specialist Group in Guernsey – with six of his patients making more than 100 complaints between them about his work and behaviour.
But the tribunal found that that the doctor’s “fitness to practise” was “not impaired”, and he was allowed to continue working.
The General Medical Council decided to appeal that decision, telling Express at the time that it had “decided to exercise its powers to issue an appeal in the case of Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri on grounds including that the tribunal erred in a number of their factual findings, and the tribunal was wrong to conclude that the doctor’s fitness to practise was not impaired”.
The obstetrician and gynaecologist currently works as a consultant at Southend University Hospital in Essex, but if the appeal is successful he could be struck off.
The appeal is being heard at the High Court (Administrative Court) with the hearing scheduled to last just three days, having started on Wednesday.