The HPOA: EXTRAORDINARY ACTION
Extraordinary action under the HPOA, now known as “summary protection orders”, has clarified many...
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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 MoreEXTRAORDINARY SUSPENSION FOR ISSUING UNWARRANTED VACCINE AND MASKING EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES
The BC government’s ordering of health measures relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as vaccination and masking requirements, has resulted in much legal wrangling...
Read MoreDR. HENRY’S PUBLIC HEALTH ACT DECISIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO INVESTIGATIONS UNDER THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT
Where registrants are fulfilling public roles under statutes apart from the Health Professions Act — such as where a physician acts as a “health officer” or...
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 MoreMoore is replaced with an investigation gap analysis, and the end of patent unreasonableness
PRB decisions — has now been significantly clarified, and shifted, by the BC Court...
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 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 MoreInquiry committees and procedural fairness
When a regulatory authority withdraws a proposed consent agreement and refers a complaint matter...
Read MoreConsultation on revising BC’s Health Professions Act
In November 2019, the Steering Committee on Modernization of Health Professional Regulation released its...
Read MoreMedically-assisted dying and the role of professional regulators
As described in a recent Globe and Mail article (here), the College of Physicians...
Read MoreThe need for interim measures to involve the least restrictive means
The propriety of an interim suspension during a regulatory investigation, when a registrant is...
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