‘We still don’t know how Mr Stack comes to be here’: Lawyer lashes delays and uncertainty in GP case

A new indictment is expected to soon be served upon a Hobart GP charged with making, supplying and illegally prescribing drugs out of his Mount Nelson clinic.

Clive Rohan Stack leaving the Hobart Magistrates Court in 2022. Picture: Kenji Sato

A new indictment is expected to soon be served upon a Hobart GP charged with making, supplying and illegally prescribing drugs out of his Mount Nelson clinic.

Clive Rohan Stack was arrested two years ago, in June 2022, after a Tasmania Police investigation and raid at his clinic, the Mt Nelson Medical Centre.

Dr Stack, who is on bail, appeared in the Supreme Court of Tasmania on Monday after previously being charged with some 71 offences, including unlawfully making a narcotic substance, possessing a restricted substance, and obtaining a prescription by means of false conduct.

Justice Stephen Estcourt heard that raft of charges had been amended, with the Crown having “settled on the appropriate charges and now seeking to finalise the indictment”.

Mt Nelson Medical Centre. Picture: Humanitas website

But his lawyer, Fabiano Cangelosi, made a comment about both the lengthy delays in Dr Stack’s case, and the lack of clarity around what his client was alleged to have done.

Mr Cangelosi said there had been “uncertainty” about whether the facts drawn by police were offences in law.

“We still don’t know how Mr Stack comes to be here. The charges are technical,” he told Justice Estcourt.

“I wanted to make it clear we have been waiting for some time for clarity on the state’s position.”

Dr Stack has not yet entered pleas.

The case will return to court next month.

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