Author: Erica Richler

Sometimes regulators come across information that they were not intending to see. Responding appropriately can be important. In a civil case, two business partners were

Screening committees often recommend or, where authorized to do so, direct practitioners to engage in remedial activities. The rationale for this authority is that such

The open-hearing principle is robust. A police discipline hearing was held following a public outcry and independent review into the police service’s handling of investigations.

What should a regulator do where a practitioner refuses to cooperate with an investigation and attacks the investigation aggressively on social media including posting documents

Occasionally regulators have to address breaches of their Code of Conduct by a Board or Council member. Where the concerns amount to allegations of wrongdoing

In Matheson v. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, 2021 ONSC 7597 (CanLII), https://canlii.ca/t/jktjh the regulator received a complaint that the practitioner saw a

Should different professions impose the same standards, and the same sanctions, for the same conduct? In Jobin c. Technologues (Ordre professionnels des), 2021 QCTP 83

Some regulators have a duty to provide their services in French. There are also proposals to expand this duty to all regulators of professions in

NB This decision was reversed by the Ontario Court of Appeal at Lauzon v Ontario (Justices of the Peace Review Council), 2023 ONCA 425 (CanLII),

Discipline panels should generally accept joint submissions unless doing so would bring the administration of justice into disrepute or would be contrary to the public