Regulation Pro Blog

Regulators cannot enact legislation through policy. However, regulators frequently publish policies interpreting or applying their legislation. The line between those two activities is sometimes fine.

Investigations require the regulator and investigator to make multiple choices throughout. Registrants sometimes suggest that some of the choices made are unfair. Courts tend to

It is a delicate task to word an investigative summons to produce documents. On the one hand, the investigator wants to ensure that all helpful

Courts strongly discourage registrants from judicially challenging the validity of a referral of allegations of professional misconduct to discipline. The latest court decision on the

Courts are reflecting on how costs should be assessed in discipline hearings where findings have been made against registrants. Alberta’s highest court has shifted from

A current consultation in the UK highlights the complexity of policy choices involved in the regulation of professions. One such choice is whether to take

Many regulators frequently provide a copy of the registrant’s response to a complaint to the complainant for comment. Doing so can assist in providing the

A concern for regulators arises when applicants for registration, who are practicing elsewhere at the time, foresee disciplinary issues developing in their existing jurisdiction. A

Perhaps the most consequential document in professional regulation in the English-speaking world this century is Right-Touch Regulation published by the UK oversight body, the Professional