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Registration and Fitness

Administrative Law
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May 29, 2026

Build the File Before the Complaint: How a license committee may defend a foreign-credential requirement under the Human Rights Code

A recent decision of the BCHRT serves as a reminder to professional regulatory bodies...

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Administrative Law
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August 18, 2025

Whether administrative bodies need to give reasons for exam results: guidance from Fadaei v. NDEB

In a recent court decision, the Supreme Court of British Columbia addressed requirements of...

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Administrative Law
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June 2, 2025

“Good character” matters

We recently came across an article on Slaw entitled, “Is It Time to Abolish (Or Reform) the...

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Administrative Law
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March 28, 2025

The Charter’s Reach: When Promoting French in Schools Doesn’t Mean Promoting French in Healthcare

The Health Professions Review Board recently had to consider if a constitutionally protected value...

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Administrative Law
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February 13, 2023

The HPOA: Who is who

Happy lunar new year! Happy year of the water rabbit.  In this post, we...

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Administrative Law
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December 2, 2022

The HPOA: Health Profession Corporations

The new Health Professions and Occupations Act (the “HPOA”) was recently passed in BC, receiving Royal...

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Administrative Law
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November 10, 2022

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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Administrative Law
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June 1, 2021

CLE’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...

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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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July 16, 2018

SCC 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...

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Administrative Law
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January 22, 2018

2017 regulatory round-up

In June, Lisa C. Fong and Angie Westmacott, Q.C., co-chaired a CLE session on...

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Administrative Law
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May 25, 2017

June conference updates

We are just around the corner from luxuriating in two days of deep thinking,...

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Discipline
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April 9, 2017

Registration 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...

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Discipline
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February 20, 2017

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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Administrative Law
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February 20, 2017

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...

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