BC Court of Appeal Confirms Limits on Judicial Review of Law Society Complaint Decisions
Sabrina Gillespie The BC Court of Appeal has confirmed that members of the public...
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Deference to investigative choices: courts will not micromanage regulatory investigations
Throughout regulatory investigations, investigators are required to make numerous choices – like choosing which...
Read MoreBeyond the Written Word: Unwritten Professional Standards in health professions
We often receive inquiries about whether health professionals are bound by unwritten standards. These...
Read MoreRegulatory Oversight or Discrimination? BC Human Rights Tribunal allows key claims to proceed
A recent decision of the BCHRT serves as a reminder to regulators that human...
Read More2022 Professional Regulation Round-up
Here is our round-up of professional regulation cases and events in 2022! Of course,...
Read MoreThe HPOA: Who is who
Happy lunar new year! Happy year of the water rabbit. In this post, we...
Read MoreThe HPOA: EXTRAORDINARY ACTION
Extraordinary action under the HPOA, now known as “summary protection orders”, has clarified many...
Read MoreThe 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...
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