Provincial offences for unauthorized practice or holding out usually result in fines, not jail. Especially for first offenders. However, that is not always the case.
Regulators are likely to see increasing numbers of concerns about practitioners with mild cognitive impairment. When do these concerns call for an aggressive incapacity intervention?
Some professions require that a registrant be responsible for the overall policies and procedures of a practice. For example, the Ontario College of Pharmacists imposes
Courts give regulators deference. In some cases that deference is quite broad. An example of broad deference is found in Pomarenski v Saskatchewan Veterinary Medical
Prior to the enactment of private sector privacy legislation over the past couple of decades it was generally accepted that the filing of a complaint
Most professional discipline statutes allow the imposition of a sanction upon a finding of misconduct. Sometimes called a “penalty”, the order imposes a consequence for
Courts and tribunals operate from the default position that their proceedings are open to the public and the information revealed during the hearing is also
In an interesting pharmacy case, a practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct by inducing vulnerable patients to transfer to his practice, including
How should regulators deal with new technologies where the risks of harm are uncertain? One Ontario regulator has had to face this challenging issue. A
There seem to be fewer areas in which courts have been giving confusing guidance to discipline panels than in the ordering of sanctions in sexual
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