Registration: good character and past complaints
A regulatory body may, when looking into an applicant’s good character, look at alleged...
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Discipline: Sufficiency of warning and the meaning of “conduct unbecoming”
The standard for the extent to which a regulatory body must provide particulars in...
Read MoreDiscipline: After a disciplinary decision, a committee may deal separately with costs
If a discipline committee absolves a member of misconduct, but fails to address the...
Read MoreAppeals: The Dunsmuir approach to “reviews” applies to “appeals” from tribunals
While courts may always engage in “judicial review” of decisions and actions by administrative...
Read MoreBlog: 2014 professional regulation round-up
While principles of administrative law continue to evolve – perhaps more in this last...
Read MoreHPRB deference on adequacy of investigations
At the start of 2014, we blogged here about a decision of the B.C....
Read MoreOntario’s mandatory licensure revocation for sexual abuse of patients is not a criminal matter
Last month, we blogged here about how professional regulatory proceedings and criminal proceedings are...
Read MoreProfessional regulatory bodies and malicious prosecution
Claims of malicious prosecution seem inevitable for professional regulatory bodies, despite the difficulties that...
Read MoreThe price of deference: inconsistency is OK
The BC Supreme Court recently found that the Health Professions Review Board improperly failed...
Read MoreMore than financial loss is needed for a court to suspend a supervision order pending an appeal or judicial review
An Ontario court declined to suspend a supervision order made by a Quality Assurance...
Read MoreDistinctions between professional regulatory and criminal processes
Confusion often arises about the extent to which professional regulatory proceedings are similar to...
Read MoreSobeys West: When professional regulatory bylaws are “unreasonable”
The BC Supreme Court has decided that the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia...
Read MoreProblems that invalidate discipline decisions
As citations serve the purpose of formally notifying registrants about issues that may lead...
Read MoreChallenging a referral to discipline by an inquiry (complaint-screening) committee
When an inquiry committee disposes of a complaint by issuing a citation for a...
Read MoreWhere a regulatory order refers to an invalid basis for jurisdiction
Where a public officer may make an order for several reasons, but fails to...
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