School) guilty of disgraceful conduct, confirming the factual findings of the Inquiry. In July 1990 two members of a working party charged, in 1975, with investigating complaints about Green’s trial and which recommended continuation, Dr Bruce Faris and Dr Richard Seddon, were each found guilty of ‘conduct unbecoming a medical practitioner’ on charges brought by the Preliminary Proceedings Committee of the Medical Council of New Zealand, despite an earlier attempt to persuade a court to stay the charges failing. Valerie Smith, a friend of Green’s, and his colleague, Dr Bruce Faris filed judicial review proceedings in the High Court, seeking to challenge Judge Cartwright’s findings in the Report. Mr Justice Barber struck out the proceedings by consent. Valerie Smith said "She now realised after listening to the Solicitor General’s submissions that she was wrong in thinking Judge Cartwright had relied on a Metro magazine article in her findings" and realised that Cartwright had not misinterpreted the McIndoe paper. Eventually 19 women who took legal action received compensation in an out-of-court settlement which stated that no fault or liability was admitted by the doctors or the institutions involved. Perspectives on the Inquiry Feminist perspectives The Inquiry was widely celebrated as one of the most important leaps forward in women's rights in New Zealand. In her book, Coney says "There was a danger that this significant event would go down as something to do with doctors and lawyers and that the women who initiated it and saw it through would be, like so many of their foremothers, written out of history." The events surrounding the Committee of Inquiry have international importance as an example of a feminist challenge to patriarchal medical structures. Medical perspectives Coney and Bunkle created the popular groundswell of opinion that led to the Inquiry. The Inquiry hastened the introduction of cervical screening which was already being considered by the Health Department and Cancer Society prior to the Inquiry, following recommendations by a working party chaired by Skegg. Patient perspectives The reforms initiated changes in ethics committees recommended by the Inquiry and introduced the role of the Health and Disability Commissioner six years after the Inquiry. Interpretations of Green's experiment since the Inquiry Defence of Green’s practices There have been many articles over time in the lay and academic press over the last thirty years, with some believed to take a 'revisionist' view of the Unfortunate Experiment. In 2009