Dr Coleman said Lord Woolf had made it clear that anyone involved in a judicial capacity must declare whether they are freemasons - he said the GMC now complied with this.
Lord Woolf underlined how he had said plans to deny people a right to appeal to the courts in immigration cases was an "overt challenge to the rule of law".
Professor Anthony Woolf, an expert in arthritis at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, Truro, said previous evidence on the benefits of acupuncture had failed to draw any firm conclusions.