Australian Supreme Court has asked prosecutors to redraft documents and provide more details pertaining to the case against Indian-origin doctor Jayant Patel, less than a month before the former surgeon is to be retried for manslaughter.
Patel is due to face a retrial on charges of manslaughter of his 75-year-old patient Morris, who died on 14 June, 2003, at the Bundaberg Base Hospital.
It has been alleged Morris was unfit to undergo an operation performed by Patel. As part of the trial process, prosecutors must particularise what it was they allege Patel did to cause the death of his patient. They have already had four attempts. During a brief hearing in Brisbane, Judge George Fryberg Fryberg struck out the latest attempt. He ordered prosecutors to redraft the document for a fifth time and provide more details to Patel’s defence team about Morris’s liver and heart disease.
Patel is due to face a retrial on charges of manslaughter of his 75-year-old patient Morris, who died on 14 June, 2003, at the Bundaberg Base Hospital.
It has been alleged Morris was unfit to undergo an operation performed by Patel. As part of the trial process, prosecutors must particularise what it was they allege Patel did to cause the death of his patient. They have already had four attempts. During a brief hearing in Brisbane, Judge George Fryberg Fryberg struck out the latest attempt. He ordered prosecutors to redraft the document for a fifth time and provide more details to Patel’s defence team about Morris’s liver and heart disease.