Human rights and consenting to discrimination: voluntary undertakings and the Code
Many regulators seek to resolve complaints and competence concerns through consensual agreements. Such agreements...
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HPRB: Robustness of reasons when resolving complaints through remedial education under HPA s.36(1)(b)
The Health Professions Review Board has signaled to Inquiry Committees resolving complaints by way...
Read MoreDisciplining a former member when the enabling act only refers to members
Today, most self-regulating profession legislation expressly provide that former members can be disciplined for...
Read MoreAddressing complainant misuse of documents
Over the last few weeks we have explored the balancing act regulators may engage...
Read MoreMore on disclosure to complainants during investigations
In a recent posting entitled Conference Questions: What should regulatory bodies disclose to complainants?...
Read MoreThe first judicial review of the HPRB: disclosure of past conduct history in the record
A court will defer to any finding of fact or law, or any exercise...
Read MoreConference Questions: What should regulatory bodies disclose to complainants?
During our 2011 Professional Regulation Conference, a question arose as to the information inquiry...
Read MoreThe rights of complainants to appeal or review, or to demand procedural fairness
Whenever an inquiry committee decides against sending a complaint matter to a hearing, the...
Read MoreExtraordinary or interim action: where there is no direct evidence of conduct likely to harm or injure
Like the extraordinary action power under s.35 of the BC Health Professions Act, the...
Read MoreHPRB: Review Board can determine College’s jurisdiction on whether issues are matters of professional conduct or competence
Where an inquiry committee of a college under the BC Health Professions Act summarily...
Read MoreWhere a Discipline Committee is “contaminated” by exposure to an inquiry settlement process, judicial review will be premature if an unbiased panel might still be convened
Upon an inquiry committee referring a matter for discipline, prejudice from investigative delay does...
Read MoreDuty of Ontario health regulators to give notice of a complaint, and an opportunity to respond
While the BC Health Professions Act does not expressly require that a registrant receive...
Read MoreHPRB: Adequacy of investigation and when an Inquiry Committee must review records of other patients
The Health Professions Review Board found an investigation to be adequate, although the Inquiry...
Read MoreExtraordinary suspensions and procedural fairness; College use of documents acquired by complainant through litigation requires leave of the Court
In a recent decision, Madam Justice Humphries of the BC Supreme Court found a...
Read MorePanellist Profile: Geoff Thiele, Director, Legislation, Ethics & Compliance, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC
We continue profiling speakers on the regulatory panel for our conference. This week we...
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