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March 26, 2018

Moral or religious objections and professional obligations

The standards of health care colleges may provide that professionals who refuse to provide...

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Administrative Law
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March 26, 2018

Provocation is not an absolute defence: biting your lip and walking away

The BC Court of Appeal recently clarified the role of the provocation defence in...

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March 26, 2018

Concurrent penalties for the same misconduct: registrants in multiple jurisdictions

A Saskatchewan court recently considered whether a decision of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of...

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February 18, 2018

Deference all the way, or in bits and pieces: does the Moore case require HPRB deference to more than choices of investigative procedures?

For colleges under BC’s Health Professions Act that have had the Health Professions Review...

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January 22, 2018

2017 regulatory round-up

In June, Lisa C. Fong and Angie Westmacott, Q.C., co-chaired a CLE session on...

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May 25, 2017

June conference updates

We are just around the corner from luxuriating in two days of deep thinking,...

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February 20, 2017

Reinstatement of license: Factors that may bear on decisions to reinstate

Where an applicant with a discipline and criminal history applies for reinstatement, a committee...

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February 20, 2017

Inquiry: The potential for professional staff to bias inquiry or investigation committees

The question of whether a decision of an inquiry committee to refer a matter...

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February 20, 2017

Registration: When regulatory bodies cannot deviate from prescribed forms

An Alberta court recently addressed whether a regulatory body acts outside its authority where,...

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January 2, 2017

2016 Professional Regulation Roundup

The year 2016 involved outcomes to many of the outstanding regulatory issues that we...

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January 2, 2017

Limits on using professional disciplinary evidence in other proceedings

The enabling statutes of some professional regulatory bodies limit the use of information and...

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January 2, 2017

Disciplining registrants for failing to respond to complaints

While enabling statutes of professional regulatory bodies may not require that respondents respond to...

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January 2, 2017

TWU and the public interest: BCCA finds that a refusal to accredit unjustifiably infringes freedom of religion

Courts of three provinces – Ontario, BC and Nova Scotia – have been grappling...

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October 30, 2016

Victim stereotypes in professional regulation

Recent, high-profile cases like that against Jian Ghomeshi highlight the problem of victim stereotypes,...

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October 30, 2016

Discipline Committees that find misconduct outside of citations

Discipline committees that decide a respondent has engaged in professional misconduct not listed in...

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