A complainant’s right to appeal or judicial review
While complainants under the Health Professions Act have a clear right to apply for...
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HPRB Summaries: Summary dismissal for no reasonable prospect of success
An application for review of an Inquiry Decision dismissing a complaint as frivolous or...
Read MoreWhen discipline panels must be correct, and not merely reasonable
While a tribunal’s substantive decision-making under its home statute may survive a judicial review...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: When an applicant for registration can seek a review
A person applying for registration with a health professions college must be refused before...
Read MoreSexual Misconduct Series: Zero tolerance policies upheld in Ontario
On the scale of how professions allow, selectively allow, or prohibit sexual relations between...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: The test on review, plus extending time, new evidence and costs
When the Health Professions Review Board reviews a disposition of a complaint by an...
Read MoreBylaws: Unlawful sub-delegation through discretionary registration requirements
Where governing legislation allows the council of a professional body to make bylaws establishing...
Read MoreReview Boards: when is an investigation inadequate?
A review of an inquiry committee decision by a review board may address whether...
Read MoreSexual Misconduct Series: Introduction
Different professions take different approaches to the sexual and romantic lives of professionals. Some...
Read MoreProtecting reserved titles through the Trade-marks Act
Professional organizations may contravene the Trade-marks Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. T-13 by using a...
Read MoreProfessional disciplinary reasons must set out the professional standard violated
Professional disciplinary reasons must set out the professional standard violated A professional disciplinary panel...
Read MoreA finding of misconduct cannot stem from wrongs not in the citation
Certain findings of professional misconduct by a physician, for failing to chart medication dosages...
Read MoreHow boards should deal with dissenting views of board members
Anyone who has served on a board has likely encountered the situation of a...
Read MoreSCC refuses leave in Salway v APEGBC
On June 14, 2010, the SCC denied an engineer leave to appeal an appellate...
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