General Optical Council

Past Hearings

  

On this page, you can find the determinations of all of our Fitness to Practise hearings from the last twelve months (transcripts are not displayed - see below). After one year, we only keep hearing details on our website where the sanction is still in force. You can see details of these hearings here.

If you know of somebody who is practising illegally following a GOC fitness to practise sanction, please email us at ftp@optical.org or download an illegal practice complaint form from our investigating complaints page.

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Transcripts

Requests, including Freedom of Information requests, for a copy of a transcript of a hearing may be requested through the Hearings Manager. A request form (below) can be downloaded. The form will be submitted to the Hearings Manager whereupon a quote will be provided and you will be required to sign an undertaking to pay all associated costs which are based on the Transcriber’s hourly charges for transcription, photocopying charges (where applicable) and a GOC administration fee which will vary according to the size of the transcript.

Redacted transcripts. Where a request is received for a transcript which has undergone redactions due to the sensitive nature of proceedings, the Hearings Manager will redact the transcript accordingly, and you will be charged by the GOC for the full rate of its production as described above. Please send all transcript requests to hearings@optical.org. 

 

 

Transcript request form - FoI

 

2021
15 July	Mary Docherty - 4th IO Review Summary
13 July	John Watson - IO summary
06 July	Lukshana Jeyaruban - Substantive Review decision
23 June	Ross Hutcheson - 6th IO Review summary
10-12 May & 22-23 June	Fawad Ahmed - substantive
18 June	Sean Higgins - Restoration Summary Review
17 June	Joanne Donnelly - 2nd Substantive review
14-17 June	David Baker - Substantive
8 June	John Rajnath - 7th IOR summary
7 - 9 June	William Hay- Substantive - subject to appeal
25 May - 4 June	Graeme Turner - Substantive
26 May	Rob Lamont - 2nd IOR Summary
1- 5 Feb & 19- 20 May	Stephen Cohen - Substantive
7 May	Zahir Ibrahim - 6th IOR summary
26 Apr	Gary Marshall - IO summary
22 Apr	Qaiser Akhtar - 2nd IO review summary
21 Apr	Bella Reid - Substantive decision
19 Apr	John Maddock - 1st IOR summary
18-20,23-24 Nov 2020 & 12-13 Apr 2021	Fazeel Makda - Substantive
08 Apr	David Little - Substantive (APD)
06 Apr	Jeremy Simeons - Substantive decision
30 Mar - 1 Apr	Ariana Faderani - Substantive
30 Mar	Arminder Panesar - 7th IO review summary
24 Mar	Nirmal Koasha - 1st IOR summary
10-11 Feb and 18-19 Mar	Lee Purdy - Substantive
18 Feb	Zahra Mogra - 2nd IO review summary
25-29 Jan, 8-9 & 15-16 Feb	Uzma Afzal - Substantive
17 Feb	Lokesh Prabhakar - 2nd IO Review summary
20 Jan	Christopher Parrish - 5th IOR summary
12-15 Jan	Devkumar Patel - Substantive
11-12 Jan	Ajay Patel - Substantive
07 Jan	Timothy Vanes - Substantive
05-06 Jan	Sarah Morris - Substantive (APD)
2020
04 Dec	Helen Wilkinson - 4th Sub Review decision
28-31 Jan & 1-2 Dec	Rajendra Chopra - Substantive
30 Nov	Roger Lee - Substantive summary
9 Nov	Nathan Smith - Substantive (ADP)
July 2020 -  12 Nov 2020 (see determination for dates)	Honey Rose - Substantive - subject to appeal by the PSA
2 Nov	Syed Ashraf Anwar Shah- Substantive
5-7 Oct	Haroon Amin - Substantive
28-29 Sept	Malti Amin - Substantive
28 Sept	Matthew Spencer - Substantive
14-16 Sept	Shahid Nazir - Substantive decision
26-27 Aug	Tracy Dermott - Substantive
20 Aug	Husnal Murtza - Substantive (APD)