THE HPOA: LICENSES, LIMITS, & CONDITIONS
We’re back! We’re back with the HPOA. The mammoth draft Health Professions and Occupations Act (Bill...
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EXTRAORDINARY SUSPENSION FOR ISSUING UNWARRANTED VACCINE AND MASKING EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES
The BC government’s ordering of health measures relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as vaccination and masking requirements, has resulted in much legal wrangling...
Read MoreDR. HENRY’S PUBLIC HEALTH ACT DECISIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO INVESTIGATIONS UNDER THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT
Where registrants are fulfilling public roles under statutes apart from the Health Professions Act — such as where a physician acts as a “health officer” or...
Read MoreCOVID-19 CHALLENGES: ENFORCING A REGISTRANT’S DUTY TO COOPERATE WITH AN INVESTIGATION
As we summarized in our recent 2021 professional regulation round-up, governments that are implementing COVID-related measures...
Read More2021 PROFESSIONAL REGULATION ROUND-UP
Professional regulatory law in the year 2021 was largely consumed with COVID-related cases...
Read MoreMoore is replaced with an investigation gap analysis, and the end of patent unreasonableness
PRB decisions — has now been significantly clarified, and shifted, by the BC Court...
Read MoreCLE’S SELF-GOVERNING PROFESSIONS – Angela Westmacott, Q.C. and Alandra Harlingten on the challenge of human rights issues faced by professional regulators
Regulatory authorities must ensure that their registrants and members are competent and fit to...
Read MoreCLE’s Self-governing professions – David Avren, Cameron Cowper, and Efrem Swartz on regulating the regulators: a tale of three regulators and the age of the superintendent
Real estate: David Avren is the Vice President, Legal Services and Compliance of the...
Read MoreCLE’s Self-governing professions – Rebecca Durcan and Lisa Fong on developments on sexual misconduct and re-envisioning regulatory practices
To ensure that regulatory authorities have the tools to address sexual misconduct by professionals...
Read MoreCLE’s Self-governing professions – Natasha Dookie and Lisa Fong on the challenges of reconciliation for regulators, and managing professional anti-maskers and COVID naysayers
In the opening session of the course, Natasha and Lisa will be speaking about...
Read MoreCLE’s Self-governing professions – Graeme Keirstead on Dr. Lip Job, Death Midwives versus Tree Doctors, and the many ways not to count delay
CLEBC’s Self-governing Professions will take place on June 9, 2021. Leading up to the...
Read MoreA failure to cooperate as professional misconduct
By Rachel Nobel Where a licensee does not outright refuse to cooperate with an...
Read MoreJudicial reviews of decisions that matters go to discipline hearing
In theory, any administrative decision may be analyzed for reasonableness. For example, a professional...
Read MoreThe duty of regulatory decision-makers to grapple with key issues in reasons
Where a regulatory authority makes a decision by strictly following a policy, but otherwise...
Read More2020 professional regulation round-up
Here is a quick recap of some significant developments in professional regulation in 2020....
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