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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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...
Read MoreConcurrent 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...
Read MoreDeference 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...
Read More2017 regulatory round-up
In June, Lisa C. Fong and Angie Westmacott, Q.C., co-chaired a CLE session on...
Read MoreJune conference updates
We are just around the corner from luxuriating in two days of deep thinking,...
Read MoreReinstatement of license: Factors that may bear on decisions to reinstate
Where an applicant with a discipline and criminal history applies for reinstatement, a committee...
Read MoreInquiry: 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...
Read MoreRegistration: When regulatory bodies cannot deviate from prescribed forms
An Alberta court recently addressed whether a regulatory body acts outside its authority where,...
Read More2016 Professional Regulation Roundup
The year 2016 involved outcomes to many of the outstanding regulatory issues that we...
Read MoreLimits on using professional disciplinary evidence in other proceedings
The enabling statutes of some professional regulatory bodies limit the use of information and...
Read MoreDisciplining registrants for failing to respond to complaints
While enabling statutes of professional regulatory bodies may not require that respondents respond to...
Read MoreTWU 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...
Read MoreVictim stereotypes in professional regulation
Recent, high-profile cases like that against Jian Ghomeshi highlight the problem of victim stereotypes,...
Read MoreDiscipline 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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