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
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
Clear and rigid rules are easiest to apply. For example, discipline panels would have an easier time if there was never a requirement to prove
Dr. Tan, a veterinarian, was disciplined for a sixth time. He sought a stay of the sanction, which included a 60-day suspension, pending an internal
Administering drugs to individuals is an activity that is regulated under several statutes. Ontario’s Court of Appeal has held that a person can be found