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Enforcement Obligations and Discretion
Can a third party compel a regulator to take enforcement action against those it regulates? In Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority v Environmental 360 Solutions
If It Wasn’t Recorded, It Wasn’t Done
Whenever educators and advisors discuss the importance of record keeping, they often haul out the old chestnut “if it wasn’t recorded, it wasn’t done” (or
Piercing the Quality Assurance Bubble
An effective quality assurance program must operate in a bubble of confidentiality. To ensure full and candid participation by registrants, registrants need to be confident
As of Right Registration
The first substantive Bill of the new Ontario government relates to free trade. However, Bill 2, Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025,
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
Possible Regulatory Responses to Exam Cheating
There are daunting challenges for regulators facing the possibility that there may have been cheating on a licensing exam, especially by multiple candidates. It is
Particulars for Interim Orders
Procedural fairness and expediency are often competing concepts when it comes to whether an interim order should be imposed to protect the public while a
Prior Complaints and Prior Findings
When a discipline panel applies criminal sentencing principles at the penalty stage of a hearing, it is considered an aggravating factor to have previously been
Collaboration Is Not Conspiracy
In order to better protect the public, regulators of professions often collaborate with other regulators or government officials that have overlapping mandates. Most commonly, this