Can contact by a physician be sexual impropriety if done without sexual intent, but is perceived as sexual?
Where a discipline committee concludes that a physician, accused of touching a patient’s chest...
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HPRB Summaries: Who is an Applicant for Registration
In response to an application for a review of a registration decision, filed in...
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 MoreSexual Misconduct Series: Lawyers and clients waiving conflicts arising from sexual relations
A sexual relationship between a lawyer and client, but a waiver of the resulting...
Read MoreRegulator policies must comply with enabling provisions
Where a statutory provision provides for a matter to be in accordance with the...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: No review jurisdiction over decisions preceding the Review Board
A complainant whose complaint was dismissed prior to the creation of the Health Professions...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: No review jurisdiction over decisions under statutes preceding the HPA
The Health Professions Review Board has jurisdiction to review specific decisions enumerated under s. 50.53(1)...
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 MoreHPRB Summaries: Exclusion of information from the record
A complainant under the Health Professions Act does not have access to ongoing investigation...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: Summary dismissal of a registration review brought by a complainant
A complaint against student registrants of a health professions college may lead to decisions...
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 MoreWhen discipline panels must be correct, and not merely reasonable
While a tribunal’s substantive decision-making under its home statute may survive a judicial review...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: When an applicant for registration can seek a review
A person applying for registration with a health professions college must be refused before...
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