A medical tribunal in Pakistan has granted interim relief to two postgraduate doctors, Dr Tayyaba Fatima Toor and Dr Muhammad Essa, whose medical licences were suspended for two years by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) following a scandal in which trainees were filmed recording a video during surgery at Lady Willingdon Hospital in Lahore. The three-member tribunal, headed by retired Justice Safdar Saleem Shahid, ruled that the doctors may continue their postgraduate training and sit their upcoming final examinations while their appeals against the disciplinary decision remain pending, drawing a clear distinction between academic participation and the independent practice of medicine. The decision is significant because it establishes that disciplinary proceedings need not automatically derail a trainee's education before the legality of any sanction has been fully determined.