A list of preliminary charges served on Dr Andrew Wakefield alleges that his research, which purported to find a possible link between MMR and autism, led to 11 different counts of misconduct.
It is claimed in the papers that he acted unethically, in a manner likely to bring the medical profession into disrepute and against the best interests of autistic child patients.
The GMC’s lawyers are halfway through a two-year inquiry into events surrounding the publication in February 1998 of a paper in The Lancet, the medical journal, written by Wakefield and 12 other doctors from the Royal Free hospital in London.
The paper triggered what was to become a worldwide alarm among parents over the safety of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.