While a tribunal’s substantive decision-making under its home statute may survive a judicial review merely by being reasonable, a tribunal must still be correct about questions of general law, and must still reach decisions on a foundation of procedural fairness;…
Lump sum costs awarded in chambers which amount to special costs may, in the absence of grounds for special costs, be set aside and replaced with party-and-party costs. This is illustrated in Gichuru v. Smith, 2010 BCCA 35, a case…
A person applying for registration with a health professions college must be refused before acquiring a right of review under the Health Professions Act, even if the applicant and college have engaged in a dispute about registration requirements: The Applicant…
On the scale of how professions allow, selectively allow, or prohibit sexual relations between members and clients or former clients, health professions typically stand at or near the point of complete prohibition. This is illustrated in the case of recent…
When the Health Professions Review Board reviews a disposition of a complaint by an inquiry committee under the Health Profession Act, it may review the adequacy of the investigation, and the reasonableness of the disposition: HPA s. 50.6(5). Decisions 1 to…