Every year regulators face the issues surrounding cancelling registrants’ licenses for failure to comply with continuing competency requirements. These issues include the question of whether grace periods are permitted to complete requirements and if so, for how long and on…
The refusal of an application for registration on grounds of fitness by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, which refusal was confirmed by the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (or HPARB), was also affirmed on a review of…
Over the last few weeks we have explored the balancing act regulators may engage in when weighing what disclosure should be made to complainants. We first examined the general rules of disclosure and the requirements of procedural fairness (click here).…
In a recent decision in the matter of Gichuru v. The Law Society of British Columbia – we blogged about the liability decision (2009 BCHRT 360) here. – the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal awarded the complainant, Mr. Gichuru, approximately $100,000…
In a recent posting entitled Conference Questions: What should regulatory bodies disclose to complainants? we attempted to address the delicate balancing act that regulatory bodies face when determining what disclosure to complainants is most prudent. This involves the need to…