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Professional Regulation

Aboriginal Law
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November 15, 2020

When extra opportunities for exam-writing are an undue hardship on the public interest

Where a provisional registrant has failed four times to pass an exam that may...

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Administrative Law
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October 16, 2020

Inquiry committees and procedural fairness

When a regulatory authority withdraws a proposed consent agreement and refers a complaint matter...

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Administrative Law
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October 15, 2020

The Strom decision is not about freedom of speech; it’s about fulsome reasons

In October 2020, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decided that a regulatory authority, the...

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Administrative Law
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September 7, 2020

The constitutionality of reserved titles under B.C.’s Health Professions Act

The Court of Appeal recently upheld the constitutionality of reserved professional titles under B.C.’s...

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Administrative Law
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September 7, 2020

A potential lack of court defence about professional standards, during “appeals”

When the Supreme Court of Canada decided in Vavilov that “appellate standards” apply to...

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Aboriginal Law
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September 7, 2020

Vavilov and our 2019 Professional Regulation Round-up

Here is a quick recap of significant developments in professional regulation in 2019, starting...

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Discipline
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December 5, 2019

CBA Health Law Presentation

On October 23, 2019, Lisa C. Fong and Lauren Riva presented to the CBABC...

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Aboriginal Law
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December 5, 2019

Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation (CNAR) 2019

CNAR held its 2019 conference in Quebec on October 28-30, 2019. Lisa C. Fong...

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Governance
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December 5, 2019

RECBC to integrate with the new BC Financial Services Authority

On November 1, 2019, a new Crown agency, the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA),...

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Administrative Law
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December 5, 2019

Consultation on revising BC’s Health Professions Act

In November 2019, the Steering Committee on Modernization of Health Professional Regulation released its...

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Administrative Law
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September 3, 2019

Forcing patients subjected to sexual misconduct to testify in regulatory proceedings

The public interest in health regulators eliminating sexual abuse by registrants may in some...

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Administrative Law
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September 3, 2019

Medically-assisted dying and the role of professional regulators

As described in a recent Globe and Mail article (here), the College of Physicians...

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Professional Regulation
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September 3, 2019

Defamation and Interlocutory Injunctions: when a registrant’s speech goes too far

A Manitoba court recently granted the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba (the “College”) an...

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Administrative Law
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July 23, 2019

Discipline penalty prohibiting ownership and control of professional businesses

With modern-day professional businesses becoming multi-clinic based, national, or international operations, professional regulators can...

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Administrative Law
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July 23, 2019

The need for interim measures to involve the least restrictive means

The propriety of an interim suspension during a regulatory investigation, when a registrant is...

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