The origin of the term Kangaroo Court is somewhat obscure. However, having spent some time researching it, a consensus seems to emerge. That consensus, not surprisingly, implies jumping. It is, after all, what that unpleasant creature is best at doing: jumping. And so a Kangaroo Court simply jumps the usual requirements of a properly constituted court, a court of Law, for example, and pretends to function as if it were legitimate and that there were no problems. Kangaroo Cour

The Irish Medical Council has 25 members. 12 of these are elected by their peers from the Irish Medical Profession; they are elected doctors, in other words. The other 13, the majority, are appointed by the government; they are non-elected lay people with government affiliations. The 12 doctor-appointed members tend to be conservatives who canvassed their conservative colleagues for votes to be elected in the first place.