Members of a Medical Council review panel were entitled to have “serious concerns” about Mr Sheill’s “lack of insight” into the circumstances that led to him being struck off the British register in 2007, the judge said.

The new ethics guide of the Irish Medical Council “is deeply flawed”, the Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran has said. The medical council is the regulatory body for the medical profession in Ireland.

Dr Patricia Selvarani Black, who practiced in Co Laois, was struck off after Mr Justice Micheál P O’Higgins confirmed a decision of the Irish Medical Council