Welcome to the Regulation Pro Blog. SML’s blog contains brief discussions of court decisions and other developments in professional regulation, with one or two new posts per week. Explore our catalogue below or on CanLII.
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A National Examination Board is Legal
The brief reasons in Aljawhiri v Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada, 2017 ONSC 2609 belie its significance. A candidate failed four times for the national
Collateral Attacks at the Human Rights Tribunal Disallowed
In Toronto Police Services Board v Briggs, 2017 ONSC 1591, the Divisional Court dealt with whether the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal could hear an allegation
Bias by Association
When is a panel member disqualified from hearing a matter because a colleague is affiliated with the practitioner facing discipline? This issue arose in Institute
It is Professional Misconduct to Say: “I should shoot you”
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to say to a social worker that he should shoot her because she “takes away too many kids”.
Enough is Enough
Tribunals are cautious about refusing adjournment requests, particularly where there is no public risk in waiting to proceed later. In Broda v. Law Society of
Going Solo During Investigative Interviews
Can a person who is under investigation insist upon having someone with them during an interview? That was the issue raised in British Columbia (Securities
Head in the Sand Strategy Fails Again
In Morgan v Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, 2017 ONSC 1466, the practitioner failed to attend a discipline hearing because he felt the process
Assistance in Writing Discipline Reasons
Some regulators are experimenting with using administrative staff to sit in on the deliberations of a discipline panel, to make notes and help prepare the
Holding Out and Title Protection
It seems that many people try to skirt the rules about protected titles and holding out in the accounting field. This may be because it