Entries categorized 'GCC 2007/08'
Put simply I was thrown off the GCC council for calling Margaret Coats a liar, and informing the president of the BCA, Tony Metcalf, The President of the SCA Ross MacDonald and the President of the UCA Frank McBride of my thoughts on GCC due process Coats and Dixon I withdrew the allegation after my...
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Posted on May 21, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
Prosecutions and persecutions were part of the occupational career outlook for newly graduated chiropractors in years before World War I. For more than a decade, California was the battleground. "Nowhere was the conflict with the medical authorities more intense, nor the prosecution of chiropractors...
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Posted on February 19, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
I made the front page of the latest GCC Newsletter, it's a great example of how the “Shadows” spin council information and minutes for the profession's consumption. Hopefully this will get people signing up to the conference. BCA president Tony Medcalfe has refused an invitation to speak...
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by Richard Lanigan |
On 14 Oct 2007, at 18:36, Dr Rod MacMillan wrote: > Dear Peter > Richard Lanigan has passed me your e mail address. The profession > regards the GCC with contempt and despises the actions of the GCC. A > vote of no confidence was overwhelming at 77%. > > > This ill feeling does not...
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Posted on April 09, 2008 by Richard Lanigan |
The statement I made to council at my hearing was 17 pages long and took about an hour to get through. Peter Dixon had threatened to restrict me to speaking about the "charges" against me at the start. I told him if there were any interruptions I would walk out and say I was not allowed to...
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Posted on March 06, 2008 by Richard Lanigan |
Hi everybody I am back free at last having being kicked off council earlier this evening. I was removed from council on the grounds that I disclosed confidential information to non council members and did not act in the best interests of the General Chiropractic Council. I put up a spirited defence but...
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Posted on March 04, 2008 by Richard Lanigan |
Yesterday members of the General Chiropractic Council received this letter from Peter Dixon. “This is a formal notification that an extraordinary meeting of Council is to be held at 17.00 on Monday 3 March 2008 at the GCC offices. The sole item of business will be the resolution from me for the...
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Posted on February 15, 2008 by Richard Lanigan |
The GCC has published the reasons for my removal from council which was “Disclosure to another person who is not a member of the Council, without the consent of the Council, information which was known to Mr Lanigan in confidence by reason of his membership of the Council; and/or Acting contrary...
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Posted on February 10, 2008 by Richard Lanigan |
In performing their statutory duties, members must uphold the following seven principles of public life (the Nolan principles) Selflessness Holders of public office should take decisions solely in terms of the public interest. They should not do so in order to gain financial or other material benefits...
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Posted on January 01, 2008 by Richard Lanigan |
England Round 1; First preference votes Christina Cunliffe 247 Richard Lanigan 218 Barry Lewis 197 Kevin Grant 180 Marisa Pinnock 177 Steve Williams 166 Peter Dixon 115 Simon Austin 92 Mathew Bennet 87 Jim ODell 35 Papers distributed 1987 Total valid votes 1514 (76%) Invalid votes 4 Wales David Byfield...
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Posted on May 31, 2007 by Richard Lanigan |