Key legal question
Whether the disciplinary warning against Dr X was time-barred due to the long delay between the facts and the sanction.
Extracted holding
The warning was time-barred; after such a long period, the public interest in sanctioning no longer outweighed Dr X's personal interest in legal certainty.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that, without needing to determine a precise prescriptive period in years, more than seven and a half years had elapsed and the harm to the public interests protected by health-profession supervision was no longer felt with sufficient immediacy.