With modern-day professional businesses becoming multi-clinic based, national, or international operations, professional regulators can find themselves challenged in ordering sanctions that result in real deterrence. Some professional regulators, while having powers to limit the practice of registrants, may not have…
The propriety of an interim suspension during a regulatory investigation, when a registrant is already subject to other interim safeguards, was addressed by the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, which stayed an interim suspension imposed by the College of Physicians…
Colleges under the Health Professions Act “may” consider any past action previously taken by the College respecting a registrant. This means in substance that the College “may” consider a registrant’s past misconduct or incompetence for purposes of deciding (on a…
The jurisdiction of regulatory colleges to regulate the activities of professionals who operate in other provinces, but provide services or products in the regulator’s jurisdiction, took a twist with the recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, that Ontario’s…
Where a health professions college collects information about a registrant for “quality assurance” purposes, and the information includes feedback about the registrant’s performance from colleagues and patients, the information is not accessible by the registrant under freedom of information law.…