Author: Anastasia-Maria Hountalas

Charkhandeh – Part 3 – Costs

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

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Charkhandeh – Part 2 – Sanction

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

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Charkhandeh – Part 1 – Proof

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

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Disputes with Colleagues

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.

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Collaboration Is Not Conspiracy

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

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Getting Technical

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

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Four Lessons for Regulators

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

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Notices of Meetings

The requirement to give notice of meetings in which policy issues will be discussed is not as rigorous as the requirement to give notice of

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