GP hauled before court over phoney lawyer’s long COVID med certificates

She admitted she was 'misled' by the supposed lawyer, who used the certificates to delay her deportation hearing
Sarah Simpkins

A GP was duped into writing multiple medical certificates for a ‘lawyer’ with long COVID who turned out to be a wannabe cafe manager trying to delay her deportation hearing, a court has found. 

On Tuesday, the Gold Coast–based GP was called before the Federal Circuit and Family Court to explain why she had supplied multiple medical certificates for Yanan Zhu, which resulted in her hearing being rescheduled five times.