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THE RCVS Disciplinary Committee has refused an application for restoration to the RCVS Register by Joseph Holmes, whose name was removed from the Register in 2011 for serious professional misconduct relating to surgery he had conducted on a dog and two cats.
At a disciplinary hearing in January 2011, Mr Holmes, who at the time was in practice in Grimsby, had faced 31 charges, of which 28 had been found to amount to serious professional misconduct. The Disciplinary Committee had directed that he should be removed from the RCVS Register (VR , January 22, 2011, vol 168, pp 65-66). Mr Holmes subsequently appealed to the Privy Council, but his appeal was dismissed in December 2011, with the Privy...