Author: Rebecca Durcan

Safeguarding

Most regulators screen complaints and reports as they arrive to assess the degree of risk presented and to prioritize matters appropriately. The UK regulator for

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Strategic Thinking

When Cary Coglianese sits back and reflects, regulators sit up and listen. Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political

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Leaked Tribunal Documents

What can a tribunal do when one of its former members discloses to outsiders confidential information about its internal processes? The Court in Derenzis v

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Standards and Sanctions

Two of the more challenging issues with which discipline tribunals cope are determining whether a registrant’s conduct fell below accepted standards of practice and, where

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Standoff

In registration matters, regulators often ask for additional information to support the application. Often the application is considered incomplete until all of the requested information

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Publishing Findings Pending Appeal

Balancing a regulator’s duty of transparency against a registrant’s interest in privacy can often be challenging. Perhaps none would be more daunting than the balancing

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The Residual Category

In discipline matters, abuse of process claims are generally premised on excessive delay and require prejudice to the registrant to result in a stay of

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