Saturday, 27 February 2010

Where Eagles Dare. Admiral Mary O'Rourke.



Where Mary O Rourke Dares to Go

Mary O Rourke is known affectionately as the Irish Terrier. If you are a doctor, you can rest assured that Mary will be defending you right until the end. I often smirk at Mary's antics as they are predictable and likened to a good comedy.

I wrote about her here.Mary clearly is a fan of war movies because she enacts one every day at GMC Towers. Luckily I am also a huge fan of Alistair McClean, my favorite movie being Where Eagles Dare. There is always something sexy about men in uniform especially Clint Eastwood or Richard Burton.

As a barrister Mary is a master at "getting her client out of the sh*t". She certainly held it together while squashed in between the dapper and sexy David Southall and Martin Forde QC. Everyone knows I quite fancy Martin Forde QC. Martin and I had a brief exchange by email where he wanted me to take his love hearts down but then decided he was man enough to face the music [ on the dance floor]. No woman can actually resist Martin probably because he is happily married.

Mary's stunt pulling is infamous in the medical regulatory sectors. She does it with style and as long as no-one like me notices and writes about it, everyone is happy. Mary amuses me every day. She takes thinks too seriously having whined about me once to her fellow barrister Tim Straker QC. Apparently, I am not allowed to flirt with Arpad Toth [ the claimant in one of her cases Toth v Jarman]. No doubt, Straker was of the view that this was shameless behaviour :). Mary has this view that everyone is probably conspiring to spot the flaws in her defences. Of course, none of us are. We all admire her greatly for her manner and her demeanor and frequently find her as entertaining as Dynasty or North and South or any other soap opera we were all glued to once upon a time. Even Arpad Toth, her arch enemy agrees that she defends well.

Mary is well known to me for her defence in Dr Sushant Varma's case. Varma never had a mental illness. I should know because I observed both reports from GMC Shrink C Sillence et al. I also know SV very well. Mary accompanied by her puppykins - Clueless Blueglass decided to plead something else. Of course, I knew this was all a ploy to get Sushant into the Health Gulag so that he wouldn't see the light of day. Varma was essentially trapped and I suspect he would have gone through with the legal team defence had it not been for my intervention. Mary is infamous for walking out of her client's case because I made an FOIA request, this was read out in the GMC's court rooms. Varma in the meantime had been contacting me by phone while informing me about the defenses set up. Mary O Rourke did not like this and began to huff. She finally walked out of Varma's case and the GMC wickedly failed to grant Varma an adjournment to obtain legal representation.

I would of course like to thank the wonderful Mark Ellen of the GMC. Mark knows of my involvement very well indeed. Thankfully SV was not branded with "mental illness" as his defense union had tried to do, and he was free to do anything he wanted to with his life without a hefty stigma.

Admiral O Rourke will be whipping out her steel wonderbra for the forthcoming appeal in David Southall v General Medical Council. She is often inspired when she fights the Southall cases and ceases to be a transparent legal butt shaker. If anyone is interested, March 2010 is the date to spot her in action. It may be easier on this occasion as she will only be sitting next to dapper David who has placed her on a daily diet of Thornton's Chocolates.



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