Author: Anastasia-Maria Hountalas

Writing reasons for a regulatory decision is not easy, especially for non-lawyers. An administrative body’s reasons are the primary basis upon which a court will

Typically, the success of a reinstatement application by a former registrant will depend on the insight they demonstrate and the established currency of their knowledge,

Alberta’s Court of Appeal appointed a special five-Justice panel to consider important aspects of discipline hearings. In a blockbuster decision, the Court addressed three recurring

Alberta’s Court of Appeal appointed a special five-Justice panel to consider important aspects of discipline hearings. In a blockbuster decision, the Court addressed three recurring

Alberta’s Court of Appeal appointed a special five-Justice panel to consider important aspects of discipline hearings. In a blockbuster decision, the Court addressed three recurring

Registrants sometimes fall out with each other. Occasionally, the registrants try to engage the regulator in the dispute. Regulators often try to avoid becoming involved.

Whenever educators and advisors discuss the importance of record keeping, they often haul out the old chestnut “if it wasn’t recorded, it wasn’t done” (or

In order to better protect the public, regulators of professions often collaborate with other regulators or government officials that have overlapping mandates. Most commonly, this

In 1979, Ontario’s Divisional Court said that an allegation of professional misconduct “is not in the form of [a criminal] indictment and it should not

Those of us in the field of professional regulation tend (perhaps wrongly) to place more importance on court-level judgments than on tribunal decisions. While court-level