In June, Lisa C. Fong and Angie Westmacott, Q.C., co-chaired a CLE session on self-regulating professions, where they, as well as Rebecca Durcan and Katrina Haymond, identified a number of ongoing, general trends in professional regulation: public skepticism about self-regulation;…
Some self-regulating professions may prevent their registrants from using the title “Doctor” in a professional capacity, despite a doctorate degree in another field, on the basis that the public may be misled about the extent of their professional training. In…
We are just around the corner from luxuriating in two days of deep thinking, collegial discussion, and learning about professional regulatory law. The fact of being able to do so ocean-side under beautiful blue skies is a definite plus. Here…
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld rules of the Law Society of Manitoba which automatically suspended a senior lawyer – one who had been practising for over sixty years – for his failing to comply with continuing professional development…
In February 2017, we wrote about the decision of an Ontario court to uphold a decision refusing reinstatement to a former pharmacist (here). We recently noticed, however, an interesting aspect of the tribunal decision (not the court decision) relating to…