A DATE has been set for a legal bid to force the Government to hold a public inquiry into disgraced North Yorkshire gynaecologist Richard Neale.
A judicial review into the decision of Health Secretary Alan Milburn to hold separate private inquiries into the activities of Neale, who worked at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, and the Kent doctor Clifford Ayling, will take place on February 5 next year.
At the High Court in London yesterday, Mr Justice Wilson accepted arguments from Richard Lussack QC, for Sheila Wright Hogeland, who lives at Kirkbymoorside, that the reviews should be heard together for "simple logistical reasons".
Mrs Wright Hogeland is a former patient of Neale, who was struck off last year after the General Medical Council heard he had botched a series of operations.
Campaigners have argued that an inquiry into Neale should be heard in public.
Updated: 11:00 Saturday, December 15, 2001
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