The doctor who accused his patient of trying to extort money from him after she gave him oral sex in a consultation room has been banned from practising medicine and told he cannot apply to practise again for at least five years. Vipin Lal’s long-term patient, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was cleared of trying to blackmail him after a District Court trial in 2015. A recent judgment from the State Administrative Tribunal led to Dr Lal being struck of the medical register. SAT president Justice Jeremy Curthoys said that “no penalty short of removal from the register is sufficient to mark the disapproval of the conduct, or bring home to Dr Lal, the magnitude of his failings, or adequately protect the public.”
