Reserved titles and freedom of expression
The constitutionality of the reserved title regime under the B.C. Health Professions Act recently has come...
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Consultation on revising BC’s Health Professions Act
In November 2019, the Steering Committee on Modernization of Health Professional Regulation released its...
Read MoreDirect services or unauthorized practice?
Internet-based or mail-order medical products are testing out their jurisdiction in Canada. Most recently,...
Read MoreForcing patients subjected to sexual misconduct to testify in regulatory proceedings
The public interest in health regulators eliminating sexual abuse by registrants may in some...
Read MoreMedically-assisted dying and the role of professional regulators
As described in a recent Globe and Mail article (here), the College of Physicians...
Read MoreBC Supreme Court Emphasizes Need for ‘Near Certainty’ of Evidence in Contempt Applications
The B.C. College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (“TCM”) unsuccessfully sought a finding of contempt...
Read MoreWhether committees are bound by their own procedure manuals
The extent to which registrants may rely on processes set out in inquiry and...
Read MoreDiscipline penalty prohibiting ownership and control of professional businesses
With modern-day professional businesses becoming multi-clinic based, national, or international operations, professional regulators can...
Read MoreThe need for interim measures to involve the least restrictive means
The propriety of an interim suspension during a regulatory investigation, when a registrant is...
Read MoreThe discretion of colleges to decide when to consider (or ignore) past disciplinary action
Colleges under the Health Professions Act “may” consider any past action previously taken by...
Read MoreSelling professional services and products out-of-province
The jurisdiction of regulatory colleges to regulate the activities of professionals who operate in...
Read MoreThe inability of registrants to access “their” quality assurance documents under FIPPA
Where a health professions college collects information about a registrant for “quality assurance” purposes,...
Read MoreNo separate civil claims of investigation and complaint dispositions
Complainants who file complaints with colleges against health professionals, and have their complaints dismissed,...
Read More2018 regulatory round-up
In 2018, courts addressed the boundaries of professional regulatory bodies to act in the public...
Read MoreHPRB reviews: no slicing and dicing of deference
The B.C. Supreme Court recently confirmed that the Health Professions Review Board must afford...
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