Conference Questions: What should regulatory bodies disclose to complainants?
During our 2011 Professional Regulation Conference, a question arose as to the information inquiry...
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Concurrent proceedings before a disciplinary hearing panel and the BC Human Rights Tribunal: can the same issue be decided by both at the same time?
The issue of whether a professional disciplinary tribunal can rule on institutional bias, and...
Read MoreTribunal jurisdiction to award costs in discipline proceedings
Hearings are expensive processes for all parties. Respondents of course bear the expense of...
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 MoreThe power to discipline former registrants
In 1987, BC courts found that a regulatory body could not discipline a former...
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 MoreCosts: Court’s power to award costs where panel decision successfully reviewed
The Ontario Superior Court confirmed the established legal principle that a court has no...
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 MoreSold out! – 2011 Professional Regulation Conference by Lovett & Westmacott and Ng Ariss Fong
JUNE 9, 2011: The 2011 Professional Regulation Conference by Lovett & Westmacott and Ng Ariss Fong...
Read MorePanellist Profile: Graeme Keirstead, Manager, Intake and Early Resolution, Law Society of British Columbia
We continue profiling speakers on the regulatory panel for our conference. This week we...
Read MoreJune 9th Conference Preview: 9:15-11:00am Applications for Registration – Implied Powers
Registration committees only have those powers that statutes give them expressly, or give them...
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 MorePanellist Profile: Kathy Corbett, Registrar and CEO, College of Occupational Therapists of British Columbia
TOPIC: SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE – Reducing Barriers for International Applicants Kathy Corbett is Registrar and...
Read MoreImplied powers of registration committees when holding fitness hearings
One of the key decisions to be made when addressing an application for registration...
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