An injunction against unauthorized practice that sets out specific restricted activities may be amended by the court to reflect changes in the law, based on the court’s original intention that unauthorized practitioners comply with the law as amended from time to time, rather than law that has become outdated: College of…
The Supreme Court of Canada recently confirmed, as reasonable, the decision of two law societies – the Law Society of BC and the Law Society of Upper Canada (now the Law Society of Ontario) — to refuse to accredit a…
As this spring (and now the summer) has been extremely busy, we weren’t able to keep up with our monthly blog schedule. To make that up, we’ve reviewed cases since March, and here are our notable picks. 1. Injunctions against…
The standards of health care colleges may provide that professionals who refuse to provide specific kinds of care based on moral or religious grounds “must” provide patients with effective referrals to other health-care providers. Such standards may be in the…
The BC Court of Appeal recently clarified the role of the provocation defence in the context of professional misconduct. Johnson v. Law Society of British Columbia, 2018 BCCA 40, considered provocation as a defence where a lawyer cursed at a…