SS7Z-C3RB-QT4K-RWJB
Tom Sun Yap
Last updated: 2026-10-04T10:29:42.459Z
- Practitioner name
- Tom Sun Yap
- Name as recorded
- Tom Sun Yap
- Profession
- Doctor
- Decision date
- 2024-10-31
- Offence category
- Child exploitation material
- Offence
- A consultant paediatrician pleaded guilty in July 2023 to accessing, transmitting and possessing child abuse / exploitation material. The offending extended from 2017 to 2022 and involved 2,079 media files.
- Outcome
- Criminal orders included concurrent six-month terms, release after four months on a $2,000 recognisance for five years, and a State twelve-month term suspended after four months plus two years’ probation. QCAT reprimanded him, cancelled registration and disqualified him for eight years.
- Outcome type
- Cancelled
- Outcome length
- 8 years
- Category
- Serious misconduct (public decisions)
- Tribunal
- Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Case name
- Health Ombudsman v Yap
- Citation
- [2024] QCAT 425
- Tribunal decision date
- 2024-10-31
- State
- QLD
- Tribunal city
- Brisbane
- National board
- Medical Board of Australia
- Registration status
- Historical outcome: Cancelled. Current registration has not been checked.
- Official outcome (tribunal/board)
- Criminal orders included concurrent six-month terms, release after four months on a $2,000 recognisance for five years, and a State twelve-month term suspended after four months plus two years’ probation. QCAT reprimanded him, cancelled registration and disqualified him for eight years.
- Source confidence
- Published decision / regulator statement
- Notes
- The published orders specify eight years’ disqualification. Full published reasons are reproduced at the decision link.
Decision-makers
- Judicial Member Jones · Judicial Member · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Prof P Baker · Medical Practitioner Panel Member · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Dr J Phipps · Medical Practitioner Panel Member · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Mrs K Thomson · Public Panel Member · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal