To insulate college personnel from personal law suits which allege misconduct while carrying out duties, section 24 of the BC Health Professions Act provides that “no action for damages lies or may be brought” against a board member or a…
Professional regulatory bodies require applicants to be of good character or morally fit before admitting them into membership. What constitutes a fit applicant for membership depends on the facts of each case. Past wrongful conduct should be examined in light…
Where a discipline committee concludes that a physician, accused of touching a patient’s chest for a sexual purpose, is found to have approximately examined the chest of a patient with bronchitis in a non-sexual manner, the committee commits a reversible…
In response to an application for a review of a registration decision, filed in response to the registration committee advising a potential applicant that he was not eligible to apply, the College of Physicians sought to have the application dismissed…
An inquiry committee is not required to carry out an exhaustive fact-finding process to assess the truthfulness of one version of events over another. This principle was confirmed by the Health Professions Review Board in The Complainant and College of…