The HPOA: Health Profession Corporations
The new Health Professions and Occupations Act (the “HPOA”) was recently passed in BC, receiving Royal...
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The HPOA: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AND SEXUAL ABUSE
In recent years, law reform in Ontario and Alberta have responded to public concerns...
Read MoreCOVID-19 CHALLENGES: ENFORCING A REGISTRANT’S DUTY TO COOPERATE WITH AN INVESTIGATION
As we summarized in our recent 2021 professional regulation round-up, governments that are implementing COVID-related measures...
Read More2021 PROFESSIONAL REGULATION ROUND-UP
Professional regulatory law in the year 2021 was largely consumed with COVID-related cases...
Read MoreCLE’s Self-governing professions – David Avren, Cameron Cowper, and Efrem Swartz on regulating the regulators: a tale of three regulators and the age of the superintendent
Real estate: David Avren is the Vice President, Legal Services and Compliance of the...
Read MoreCLE’s Self-governing professions – Rebecca Durcan and Lisa Fong on developments on sexual misconduct and re-envisioning regulatory practices
To ensure that regulatory authorities have the tools to address sexual misconduct by professionals...
Read MoreA failure to cooperate as professional misconduct
By Rachel Nobel Where a licensee does not outright refuse to cooperate with an...
Read MoreJudicial reviews of decisions that matters go to discipline hearing
In theory, any administrative decision may be analyzed for reasonableness. For example, a professional...
Read MoreThe duty of regulatory decision-makers to grapple with key issues in reasons
Where a regulatory authority makes a decision by strictly following a policy, but otherwise...
Read MoreThe Strom decision is not about freedom of speech; it’s about fulsome reasons
In October 2020, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decided that a regulatory authority, the...
Read MoreA potential lack of court defence about professional standards, during “appeals”
When the Supreme Court of Canada decided in Vavilov that “appellate standards” apply to...
Read MoreVavilov and our 2019 Professional Regulation Round-up
Here is a quick recap of significant developments in professional regulation in 2019, starting...
Read MoreCBA Health Law Presentation
On October 23, 2019, Lisa C. Fong and Lauren Riva presented to the CBABC...
Read MoreConsultation on revising BC’s Health Professions Act
In November 2019, the Steering Committee on Modernization of Health Professional Regulation released its...
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...
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