Extraordinary or Interim Suspensions: adequacy of reasons and sufficiency of pre-existing measures
Even in cases where one might conclude the basis for extraordinary action, e.g., an...
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Defective Search Orders
The Health Professions Act allows for colleges to apply to the court to obtain...
Read MoreUndertakings and Discipline: penalties and proportionality for multiple acts
Where a regulator seeks to address a complaint involving multiple wrongs, and the complaint...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: Reasonableness of disposition where conflicting versions of events
An inquiry committee is not required to carry out an exhaustive fact-finding process to...
Read MoreExtraordinary suspension hearings and a registrant’s right to respond
Does an investigation committee’s failure to provide a registrant with a right to respond...
Read MoreThe Salway Saga: Alternate resolution processes, and standards of review, in Salway v. APEGBC
The year 2002 marked the beginning of a lengthy legal battle began Mr. Salway,...
Read MoreA complainant’s right to appeal or judicial review
While complainants under the Health Professions Act have a clear right to apply for...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: Summary dismissal for no reasonable prospect of success
An application for review of an Inquiry Decision dismissing a complaint as frivolous or...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: The test on review, plus extending time, new evidence and costs
When the Health Professions Review Board reviews a disposition of a complaint by an...
Read MoreReview Boards: when is an investigation inadequate?
A review of an inquiry committee decision by a review board may address whether...
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