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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Disciplining 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...
Read MoreLetters of direction under B.C.’s Health Professions Act
The B.C. Supreme Court recently upheld the power of an inquiry committee under B.C.’s...
Read MoreUpdate on medical assistance in dying (previously physician-assisted death): Bill C-14
[updated to May 23, 2016] On April 14, 2016, the federal government tabled Bill...
Read MoreHow to decide about extraordinary or interim action: Scott v CMTBC, 2016 BCCA 180
When screening or inquiry committees decide on interim or “extraordinary” measures pending further investigation,...
Read MoreInquiry Committees and Inadequate Investigations
In the recent case of College of Chiropractors of British Columbia v. Health Professions...
Read MoreAppellate court upholds bylaws aimed at keeping “incentive programs” from eroding professional standards
Bylaws passed by the College of Pharmacists of BC to prohibit pharmacists from making...
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