Entry requirements of “good character” and “fitness” are clearly malleable. They consist of equally difficult concepts like honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness, and they turn on cultural and social expectations about which people differ. Yet good character and fitness requirements persist…
Where an applicant for registration fails to pass a mandatory registration exam, but challenges the accuracy of the marking, a professional regulator may face not only a challenge to the scoring, but also a request that the regulator disclose the…
At least in a regulatory system with a “good character” requirement where applicants do not have the benefit of good character being presumed, a regulatory may refuse to grant registration to an applicant who has been charged with serious criminal…
As most of you will already be aware, on January 16th of this year our firm co-presented a 2 hour webinar with the Victoria-based firm of Lovett & Westmacott in which we addressed how professional regulation interfaces with human rights…
To obtain a certificate of registration through interprovincial mobility provisions, an applicant must have an equivalent licence in another jurisdiction, and be deemed fit to practice. The Ontario HPARB decided an “inactive” license in Saskatchewan was not equivalent to a…