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Administrative Law
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December 2, 2022

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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Administrative Law
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November 16, 2022

The HPOA: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AND SEXUAL ABUSE

In recent years, law reform in Ontario and Alberta have responded to public concerns...

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Administrative Law
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March 1, 2022

COVID-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...

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Administrative Law
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February 7, 2022

2021 PROFESSIONAL REGULATION ROUND-UP

Professional regulatory law in the year 2021 was largely consumed with COVID-related cases...

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Administrative Law
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June 1, 2021

CLE’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...

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Administrative Law
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May 30, 2021

CLE’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...

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Administrative Law
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May 12, 2021

A failure to cooperate as professional misconduct

By Rachel Nobel Where a licensee does not outright refuse to cooperate with an...

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Administrative Law
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May 12, 2021

Judicial reviews of decisions that matters go to discipline hearing

In theory, any administrative decision may be analyzed for reasonableness. For example, a professional...

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Administrative Law
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May 12, 2021

The 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...

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Administrative Law
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October 15, 2020

The 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...

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Administrative Law
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September 7, 2020

A potential lack of court defence about professional standards, during “appeals”

When the Supreme Court of Canada decided in Vavilov that “appellate standards” apply to...

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Aboriginal Law
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September 7, 2020

Vavilov and our 2019 Professional Regulation Round-up

Here is a quick recap of significant developments in professional regulation in 2019, starting...

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Discipline
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December 5, 2019

CBA Health Law Presentation

On October 23, 2019, Lisa C. Fong and Lauren Riva presented to the CBABC...

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Administrative Law
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December 5, 2019

Consultation on revising BC’s Health Professions Act

In November 2019, the Steering Committee on Modernization of Health Professional Regulation released its...

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Administrative Law
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September 3, 2019

Forcing 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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