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THE RCVS Disciplinary Committee has directed that the name of Joseph Holmes should be restored to the RCVS Register following a two-day hearing ending on March 19.
Mr Holmes was removed from the Register in February 2012 after he had been found guilty of multiple charges of serious professional misconduct at a hearing in January 2011 (VR , January 22, 2011, vol 168, pp 65-66). He lodged an appeal against the decision, which was heard and dismissed by the Privy Council in December 2011 (VR , January 14, 2012, vol 170, p 38), and was subsequently removed from the Register.
The Disciplinary Committee heard an earlier application by Mr Holmes for restoration to the Register in February 2013. At that time,...