2021 PROFESSIONAL REGULATION ROUND-UP
Professional regulatory law in the year 2021 was largely consumed with COVID-related cases...
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CLE’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 MoreDefamation and Interlocutory Injunctions: when a registrant’s speech goes too far
A Manitoba court recently granted the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba (the “College”) an...
Read MoreNo separate civil claims of investigation and complaint dispositions
Complainants who file complaints with colleges against health professionals, and have their complaints dismissed,...
Read MoreJune conference updates
We are just around the corner from luxuriating in two days of deep thinking,...
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 MoreHuman right claim by Indo-Canadian veterinarians succeeds against the BCVMA
After the longest hearing in its history – 356 hearing days – the B.C....
Read MoreInquiry: Investigators for regulatory bodies are protected from defamation claims by “absolute privilege”
Where an investigator for a regulatory body sends emails to two complainants who have...
Read MoreProfessional regulatory bodies and malicious prosecution
Claims of malicious prosecution seem inevitable for professional regulatory bodies, despite the difficulties that...
Read MoreNews and Events – 2013 Professional Regulation Conference by Lovett & Westmacott and Ng Ariss Fong
September 24, 2013: The firms of Lovett & Westmacott and Ng Ariss Fong will...
Read MoreCosts: Court’s power to award costs where panel decision successfully reviewed
The Ontario Superior Court confirmed the established legal principle that a court has no...
Read MoreProfessional regulatory bodies do not owe a private law duty of care to patients, and cannot be liable for determining a treatment meets an acceptable standard of practice
Professional regulatory bodies protect the public interest by ensuring practising members are capable and...
Read MoreOur round-up of top 2010 professional regulatory cases
1. On deference to a professional regulatory body on findings of unprofessional conduct: Salway...
Read MoreImmunity of regulatory personnel from lawsuits: Part 2
In December, we examined the protection from lawsuits that regulatory personnel receive under s.24...
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