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Disgraced former Southland doctor Peter Fisher, 45, was arrested by British police in October last year and charged with manslaughter over the suicide of Peter Weighman, 39, who overdosed on painkillers in September 2002 when Fisher was working in the mental health unit of West Cumberland Hospital.
A Cumbrian newspaper, The Whitehaven News, said six weeks have been set aside for the trial at Carlisle Crown Court due to start on January 15.
Fisher was a doctor in three New Zealand cases which involved deaths, including that of Southland patient Mark Burton, a paranoid schizophrenic, who was discharged a day before stabbing to death his mother, Paddy Burton, in 2001.
Burton was found not guilty of murder because of insanity after a High Court trial.
Fisher then illegally took up a post at West Cumberland Hospital in August 2002 while still under investigation in New Zealand for professional misconduct in the case.
In November 2003 New Zealand's Medical Practitioners' Disciplinary Tribunal found Fisher guilty of 17 counts of professional misconduct while caring for Burton
Fisher is accused of unlawfully killing Mr Weighman on September 22, 2002. The prosecution alleges manslaughter through negligence. Fisher has previously entered a not guilty plea.
Detectives had spent several months in New Zealand gathering information, The Whitehaven News reported.
As a condition of his bail, Fisher lives with his parents in Devon.
He is not allowed to leave Britain and must report to his local police station twice weekly.
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