Court dismisses case to have Michael Jackson doctor’s T&T license revoked

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

Ear­li­er this week, a tri­bunal ap­point­ed by the Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MBTT), chaired by at­tor­ney Shankar Bidaisee, de­liv­ered the de­ci­sion, which al­lows Mur­ray to con­tin­ue prac­tis­ing lo­cal­ly.

The out­come was not based on a com­pre­hen­sive analy­sis of the mer­its of the com­plaint, but rather on the re­cusal of the tri­bunal’s for­mer chair­man, Dr Ian Ram­nar­ine, af­ter he im­prop­er­ly ap­proached a wit­ness.