Mark your calendars: 2017 Professional Regulation Hearing Workshop
June 1, 2017 (Vancouver): 2017 Professional Regulation Hearing Workshop: Lisa C. Fong and guest...
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Reinstatement of license: Factors that may bear on decisions to reinstate
Where an applicant with a discipline and criminal history applies for reinstatement, a committee...
Read MoreInquiry: The potential for professional staff to bias inquiry or investigation committees
The question of whether a decision of an inquiry committee to refer a matter...
Read MoreRegistration: When regulatory bodies cannot deviate from prescribed forms
An Alberta court recently addressed whether a regulatory body acts outside its authority where,...
Read More2016 Professional Regulation Roundup
The year 2016 involved outcomes to many of the outstanding regulatory issues that we...
Read MoreLimits on using professional disciplinary evidence in other proceedings
The enabling statutes of some professional regulatory bodies limit the use of information and...
Read MoreDisciplining registrants for failing to respond to complaints
While enabling statutes of professional regulatory bodies may not require that respondents respond to...
Read MoreTWU and the public interest: BCCA finds that a refusal to accredit unjustifiably infringes freedom of religion
Courts of three provinces – Ontario, BC and Nova Scotia – have been grappling...
Read MoreVictim stereotypes in professional regulation
Recent, high-profile cases like that against Jian Ghomeshi highlight the problem of victim stereotypes,...
Read MoreDiscipline Committees that find misconduct outside of citations
Discipline committees that decide a respondent has engaged in professional misconduct not listed in...
Read MoreLetters of caution issued by screening committees
Investigation and screening committees may sometimes find, after an investigation, that a respondent’s conduct,...
Read MoreSuspensions: Being a registrant means practicing as a registrant
A regulatory body may suspend a registrant, only to have that registrant attempt to...
Read MoreThe duty of registrants to respond during investigations; the size of disciplinary costs awards
An Ontario court canvassed an array of issues before upholding of discipline relating to...
Read MoreTWU and the public interest: Ontario appellate court upholds law society’s refusal to accredit a body that discriminates against LGBTQ students
In our 2015 regulatory round-up (here), we described the ongoing dispute arising in the...
Read MoreRegistration: complaints and good character
In a previous blog entry (here) we wrote about the Alberta Court of Queen’s...
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