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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

There has been increasing scrutiny of the fairness of registration requirements based on the criminal record of applicants. To address that concern, many regulators conduct

In 1979, Ontario’s Divisional Court said that an allegation of professional misconduct “is not in the form of [a criminal] indictment and it should not

When there is a concerning connection between counsel to a party in a proceeding and the adjudicator, who should step aside? In Whearty v. Ontario

An adjudicator’s exploration of personal opportunities with a participant in a pending case before them can constitute an appearance of bias. Typically, this occurs where

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

Several court decisions indicate that a complainant enjoys a legal privilege when filing a formal complaint to a regulatory body and are immune from a

Most regulators can decline to investigate complaints that are frivolous, vexatious, an abuse of process or otherwise not in the public interest to pursue. It

Those of us in the field of professional regulation tend (perhaps wrongly) to place more importance on court-level judgments than on tribunal decisions. While court-level

Two of the more challenging legal principles for regulators to apply are accommodation and proportionality. Accommodation, in the human rights sphere, refers to adjusting a