The HPOA: Who is who
Happy lunar new year! Happy year of the water rabbit. In this post, we...
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The HPOA: Health Profession Corporations
The new Health Professions and Occupations Act (the “HPOA”) was recently passed in BC, receiving Royal...
Read MoreTHE HPOA: LICENSES, LIMITS, & CONDITIONS
We’re back! We’re back with the HPOA. The mammoth draft Health Professions and Occupations Act (Bill...
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 MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreSCC confirms non-accreditation of TWU law school based on discrimination of school “covenant” against LGTBQ students
The Supreme Court of Canada recently confirmed, as reasonable, the decision of two law...
Read More2017 regulatory round-up
In June, Lisa C. Fong and Angie Westmacott, Q.C., co-chaired a CLE session on...
Read MoreJune conference updates
We are just around the corner from luxuriating in two days of deep thinking,...
Read MoreRegistration and reinstatement: is good character for one, good character for all?
In February 2017, we wrote about the decision of an Ontario court to uphold...
Read MoreMark your calendars: 2017 Professional Regulation Hearing Workshop
June 1, 2017 (Vancouver): 2017 Professional Regulation Hearing Workshop: Lisa C. Fong and guest...
Read MoreReinstatement 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 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 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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