Paediatrician Dr David Southall is back on the medical register after winning an appeal over a long-running dispute with the GMC.
The Appeal Court’s decision means he is able to practise medicine again.
The fitness to practise panel took action to strike Southall off the register in 2007 after he accused a mother of drugging and murdering her 10-year-old son.
The judges found that the GMC had failed to give adequate reasons over claims that Dr Southall had made.
The case has now been sent the case back to the GMC, which will be required to consider it again.
It found that his actions had added to the distress of the mother - Mrs M - following the death of her son, who hanged himself in 1996.
Lord Justice Leveson, giving the latest court ruling, said: “I am far from convinced that the public interest is truly served by a rehearing of the limited factual allegation that was made in this case, turning on the precise language used 12 years ago.
“If there is to be a re-hearing, I do not accept that it would be right for it to be conducted before the same panel; fresh minds should be brought to the issue in this case.”
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