DISGRACED surgeon Jayant Patel has blamed his manslaughter convictions on a string of judicial errors.
He claims the jury was allowed to hear days of testimony that should have been ruled inadmissible.
Bundaberg Base Hospital's former director of surgery was last month convicted of the manslaughter of three patients and causing the grievous bodily harm of another.
But in a notice filed in Queensland's Court of Appeal on Thursday, Patel claims the jury's verdicts "were unreasonable and not open to the evidence".
In early June -- months into the trial and following days of legal argument -- prosecutors were forced to change the legal and evidentiary premise of their case. Rather than proving Patel operated in an incompetent manner, prosecutors were to focus on the surgeon's pre- and post-operative decisions.
