Embattled orthopaedic surgeon Richard Hocking has been accused of using subterfuge to delay being suspended from practising.
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In turn, Dr Hocking's legal team accused the Canberra Hospital's head of orthopaedic surgery Paul Smith of running a persecution campaign against him.
In proceedings in the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, he also alleged another doctor, Dr Robert Griffin, breached the privacy provisions of the Health Act by handing a complaint about him to the ACT Medical Board.
Dr Smith and Dr Griffin have not yet answered the allegations.
The ACT Medical Board suspended Dr Hocking in April after he allegedly used therapeutic experimentation on a nine-year-old boy who had a hip disorder by injecting him with platelet-rich plasma.
The case followed numerous other allegations of medical mistakes by the surgeon, some of which prompted severe restrictions on his practice.
Dr Griffin, administrator of the hospital's clinical practices committee, which investigates malpractice claims, blacked out information he thought sensitive and sent the complaint to the medical board.
Dr Hocking appealed the suspension in the ACAT, which temporarily lifted his ban until the tribunal was able to hear his case.
But at the hearing dates set down in the past fortnight, Dr Hocking's legal team argued against the jurisdictional basis of the ACAT to hear the case and applied for the ACAT hearings to be delayed until an application was lodged for Dr Hocking's case to be heard in the Supreme Court.
The medical board's barrister Ken Archer said this and the continual filing of documents at the 11th hour by Dr Hocking via his legal team meant the surgeon's case in the ACAT was a ruse.
Mr Archer said there was a significant public safety risk in Dr Hocking continuing to have his suspension lifted until legal appeals were finalised.