Second, in view of the finding on the liability phase that the Respondent deliberately touched the four complainants in a way that an
objective observer would find to be sexual and in accepting the complainants» evidence that the touching was, to them, «blatantly sexual» there is no line of analysis that could
reasonably lead the tribunal to conclude that the Respondent's awkward, unskilled and non-empathic
manner was a factor in understanding his abusive behaviour or that it could
reasonably infer that he was genuinely and completely unaware of the ways in which his behaviour in relation to his patients was in fact abusive,» said the ruling.