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Administrative Law
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February 7, 2022

2021 PROFESSIONAL REGULATION ROUND-UP

Professional regulatory law in the year 2021 was largely consumed with COVID-related cases...

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Administrative Law
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June 3, 2021

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...

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Professional Regulation
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September 3, 2019

Defamation 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...

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Administrative Law
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May 28, 2019

No separate civil claims of investigation and complaint dispositions

Complainants who file complaints with colleges against health professionals, and have their complaints dismissed,...

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Discipline
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January 16, 2019

2018 Fall Compendium

The fall was way too busy for us to keep up with our blog,...

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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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Administrative Law
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January 2, 2017

Limits on using professional disciplinary evidence in other proceedings

The enabling statutes of some professional regulatory bodies limit the use of information and...

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Administrative Law
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October 29, 2015

Human right claim by Indo-Canadian veterinarians succeeds against the BCVMA

After the longest hearing in its history – 356 hearing days – the B.C....

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Administrative Law
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March 18, 2015

Inquiry: 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...

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Administrative Law
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December 17, 2014

Professional regulatory bodies and malicious prosecution

Claims of malicious prosecution seem inevitable for professional regulatory bodies, despite the difficulties that...

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Administrative Law
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March 10, 2013

News 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...

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Administrative Law
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May 27, 2011

Costs: 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...

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Administrative Law
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April 11, 2011

Professional 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...

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Administrative Law
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March 24, 2011

Our round-up of top 2010 professional regulatory cases

1. On deference to a professional regulatory body on findings of unprofessional conduct: Salway...

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Administrative Law
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March 24, 2011

Immunity 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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