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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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...
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...
Read MoreThe discretion of colleges to decide when to consider (or ignore) past disciplinary action
Colleges under the Health Professions Act “may” consider any past action previously taken by...
Read MoreSelling professional services and products out-of-province
The jurisdiction of regulatory colleges to regulate the activities of professionals who operate in...
Read MoreNo separate civil claims of investigation and complaint dispositions
Complainants who file complaints with colleges against health professionals, and have their complaints dismissed,...
Read More2018 regulatory round-up
In 2018, courts addressed the boundaries of professional regulatory bodies to act in the public...
Read MoreHPRB reviews: no slicing and dicing of deference
The B.C. Supreme Court recently confirmed that the Health Professions Review Board must afford...
Read MoreSettlement privilege applies to reviews before the HPRB
When inquiry committees negotiate consent or undertaking agreements to resolve complaint matters consensually (under...
Read MoreSexual Abuse and Sexual Misconduct: Upcoming changes to professional regulation in Alberta
Apropos to our recent newsletter on #MeToo, Katrina Haymond and James Casey, Q.C. shared...
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