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…
A Saskatchewan court recently considered whether a decision of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (“CPSS” or the “Sask. College”) to strike Dr. Horri’s name from the register, with no right to reapply for a nine-month period, was a reasonable…
For colleges under BC’s Health Professions Act that have had the Health Professions Review Board reverse complaint dismissals by the registrar, based on an inadequate investigation of an “objectively” serious matter, the issue as whether the Review Board owes deference…