Author: Julie Maciura

Discipline sanctions must not be clearly unfit (at least in contested cases; a different test applies where there is a joint submission on penalty). In

In Alberta Securities Commission v Hennig, 2021 ABCA 411 (CanLII), https://canlii.ca/t/jl93g, Alberta’s highest court took a narrow view as to when disciplinary sanctions of a

A recent Alberta case reaffirms that regulators with the authority to compel information from registrants can require a registrant to give the regulator a copy

Generally, regulators cannot be sued successfully for damages unless they acted in bad faith. Bad faith must be pleaded with particulars; a bald allegation is

Many regulators view Intimate Partner Violence as a serious matter in which they have a significant role to play. For the medical profession, at least,

Hearings de novo are strange creatures of administrative law. In effect, they are a complete redoing of a prior administrative decision – by a different

Increasingly, regulators are being asked to deal with complaints that a practitioner made public statements without a reasonable basis for making them. Another example of

In discipline matters, regulators generally do not have to prove that the practitioner had malicious or dishonest intent to engage in the conduct. Failing to

If a practitioner is registered in two jurisdictions, which should proceed first with the investigation and hearing? This issue arose in Mema v Chartered Professional

There is continuing ambiguity as to the impact of a practitioner’s bankruptcy proceedings on disciplinary sanctions. The goal of the bankruptcy process is to enable