James Gilbert, a transplant surgeon from the United Kingdom, sexually harassed younger colleagues for more than a decade. The General Practitioners Tribunal ruled in August 2024 that he should be suspended for eight months for sexually harassing four junior colleagues, including inappropriately marking and sexually touching three of them. After this decision, Gilbert can work again in the UK. Harassment victims and doctors' groups protested the penalty, which they saw as too lenient, and called on regulators to appeal it. The General Medical Council and the Professional Standards Authority subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court. Regulators have argued that the sanction downplays the seriousness of sexual abuse and racism in medicine.