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…
In October 2020, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decided that a regulatory authority, the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association, unjustifiably infringed a nurse’s freedom of expression by reprimanding and fining her for making social media posts about the palliative care her…
The Court of Appeal recently upheld the constitutionality of reserved professional titles under B.C.’s Health Professions Act (“HPA”), and set aside a lower-court decision finding that the regime unjustifiably infringed freedom of expression (2019 BCSC 1670) in College of Midwives…