SYDNEY-BASED pharmacist, Hany Samir Ibrahim, is set to face a sentencing hearing in Mar 2021 after pleading guilty to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent with a patient in a Mascot pharmacy's consultation room.
Ibrahim had initially denied three charges relating to an incident involving a 19-year-old woman who had come into the pharmacy seeking emergency contraception on 01 Jul 2019.
However, Ibrahim pleaded guilty to the charge of sexual intercourse without consent at a NSW District Court hearing in Sep, the Daily Telegraph reported today.
The 47-year-old's registration was initially suspended by the Pharmacy Council of NSW, before a NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) granted him permission to resume his career last Dec (PD 16 Dec 2019) on a number of strict conditions, including that he not interact with patients, be employed as a pharmacist-in-charge, or work alone in a pharmacy.
That decision was subsequently overturned by the NSW Supreme Court earlier this year (PD 10 Jun), on the grounds that the Tribunal had erred in its application of Section 150 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 2009, ordering that the decision to impose conditions rather than a suspension be set aside and "the proceedings are remitted to NCAT, differently constituted, to be determined according to law".
Affidavits from four colleagues presented to the NCAT hearing all attested that the allegations made against him were "completely out of character", and they were all confident he could continue to be employed at the pharmacy in a restricted role which did not involve private consultations.
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