While the BC Health Professions Act does not expressly require that a registrant receive immediate notice of a complaint (although notice is good and fair practice, and may be mandated by a regulator’s bylaws), it does require an inquiry committee…
TOPIC: SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE – Reducing Barriers for International Applicants Kathy Corbett is Registrar and CEO of the College of Occupational Therapists of British Columbia (“COTBC”). The COTBC is the regulatory body for the self-governing profession of occupational therapy. The College…
One of the key decisions to be made when addressing an application for registration that raises fitness or good character issues is whether procedural fairness requires that an oral hearing be conducted. This issue has been particularly troublesome where the…
The importance of discipline panels issuing reasons that adequately support each finding of misconduct, and that stay within the four corners of the citation, was recently illustrated by the Alberta Court of Appeal granting the appeal of a social worker,…
The Health Professions Review Board found an investigation to be adequate, although the Inquiry Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons did not interview or obtain information from a number of potential witnesses suggested by a complainant, as the…