Complaint against Dr Conrad Murray dismissed after tribunal chair’s recusal

A com­plaint seek­ing to sus­pend or re­voke car­di­ol­o­gist Dr Con­rad Mur­ray’s tem­po­rary med­ical li­cence be­cause of his manslaugh­ter con­vic­tion in con­nec­tion with the death of US pop su­per­star Michael Jack­son has been dis­missed.

Ear­li­er this week, a tri­bunal ap­point­ed by the Med­ical Board of T&T (MBTT), chaired by at­tor­ney Shankar Bidaisee, de­liv­ered its de­ci­sion, al­low­ing Mur­ray to con­tin­ue prac­tis­ing lo­cal­ly.

The de­ci­sion was not based on a com­pre­hen­sive as­sess­ment of the com­plaint’s mer­its. In­stead, the tri­bunal ruled that it could not pro­ceed af­ter its for­mer chair and cur­rent MBTT sec­re­tary, Dr Ian Ram­nar­ine, re­cused him­self over an im­prop­er ap­proach to a wit­ness.