Regulation Pro Blog

Regulators have special challenges when regulating practitioners who practise through a corporate structure. One such challenge is being clear in any notice of hearing whether

Government Ministers are responsible for overseeing statutory regulators. However, that responsibility does not mean that the Minister is a necessary party to any legal disputes

In a series of cases over the last few years it seems clear that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has been trying

Few decisions were as anticipated by the legal profession as was the Supreme Court of Canada verdict in Groia v. Law Society of Upper Canada,

In Davis v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2018 BCCA 149, http://canlii.ca/t/hrlk7 an investor relations service provider accepted $7,000 from an investor for the purchase of

In Law Society of British Columbia v. Perrick, 2018 BCCA 169, http://canlii.ca/t/hrs3p, a lawyer was facing two discipline hearings for conduct that occurred at roughly

Few discipline cases have achieved as much notoriety as the discipline of Ms. Strom, a nurse in Saskatchewan, for posting comments on Facebook that were

Most regulators have some staff members who are also registered members of the profession. Occasionally misconduct complaints are made against these staff members even though

Even before the Court of Appeal rendered its decision in College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario v. Peirovy, 2018 ONCA 420, http://canlii.ca/t/hrt0r, the courts