Registration and reinstatement: is good character for one, good character for all?
In February 2017, we wrote about the decision of an Ontario court to uphold...
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Discipline: Lying to your governing body and ungovernability
A Manitoba court recently cancelled the licence of a physician who made multiple misrepresentations...
Read MoreUpdate on Professional Regulatory Conferences, Vancouver, June 2017
CLEBC and Ng Ariss Fong, Lawyers offer 2 days of education on the law...
Read MoreMark your calendars: 2017 Professional Regulation Hearing Workshop
June 1, 2017 (Vancouver): 2017 Professional Regulation Hearing Workshop: Lisa C. Fong and guest...
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 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 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...
Read MoreLetters of caution issued by screening committees
Investigation and screening committees may sometimes find, after an investigation, that a respondent’s conduct,...
Read MoreSuspensions: Being a registrant means practicing as a registrant
A regulatory body may suspend a registrant, only to have that registrant attempt to...
Read MoreThe duty of registrants to respond during investigations; the size of disciplinary costs awards
An Ontario court canvassed an array of issues before upholding of discipline relating to...
Read MoreLetters of direction under B.C.’s Health Professions Act
The B.C. Supreme Court recently upheld the power of an inquiry committee under B.C.’s...
Read MoreProof of misconduct through proof of criminal conviction
In the last few months, we have been looking at discipline committee decisions, to...
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