A high-profile disciplinary hearing for a doctor accused of leaving a girl in a vegetative state six years ago has been adjourned pending a coroner’s inquest, a decision the girl’s father learned of just a week before proceedings were due to begin.
The Medical Council informed Eddie Chau, father of Chau Tin-yu, on Tuesday night that the hearing, originally scheduled to start on October 27, would be postponed until after the inquest.
The decision leaves both proceedings in limbo. Just last month, the Coroner’s Court told Chau it would wait for the Medical Council inquiry to conclude first, to avoid a scheduling clash.