Judges would also be sanctioned for gross errors in rulings.

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Yet the public sees errors as gross anomalies.

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He told the coroner's court that there had been catalogue of errors in Mr Ridd's treatment, a gross failure to provide adequate medical care and a clear connection in the way he was treated and the cause of his death.

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