Here is a quick recap of some significant developments in professional regulation in 2020. 1. One year of Vavilov In December 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada revised how courts (at least) must engage in judicial reviews: Canada (Minister of Citizenship…
The B.C. Supreme Court examined the constitutionality of COVID-related restrictions against religious gatherings, imposed by the provincial health officer under the Provincial Health Act, in Beaudoin v British Columbia, 2021 BCSC 512. On November 19, 2020, in response to the spread of…
Where a college’s registrants may be engaging in activities they may not be qualified to practice — such as where pharmacists may be practising dietetics — and the college issues a non-binding guideline urging them to “stay in their lane”,…
Where a provisional registrant has failed four times to pass an exam that may ordinarily be written only three times, a regulatory authority may reasonably refuse to allow a fifth attempt, regardless of the registrant’s learning disability, to preserve the…
When a regulatory authority withdraws a proposed consent agreement and refers a complaint matter for a discipline hearing, the registrant may attempt to challenge the decision on procedural fairness grounds. But as recently reviewed by the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s…