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Where a tribunal or court has the power to review a decision on a “reasonableness” standard, it must not reweigh the evidence. Some guidance on

While the Supreme Court of Canada has said in Reference re Pan‑Canadian Securities Regulation, 2018 SCC 48 (CanLII), [2018] 3 SCR 189, that a national

A report by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has broad implications for UK regulated professions with private equity investment (even though the focus

The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) of the United Kingdom is the oversight body for UK’s health and social work professions regulators. The PSA has just

No one engaging in the unauthorized practice of medicine can rely “on ‘weasel words’ to avoid accountability and gloss over the substance of what [they

There are many types of claims (called “causes of action”) that can be made against regulators. There are also several defences that regulators can raise

Many regulators can ask a court to direct an unregistered person to stop performing controlled acts, using a protected title, or holding themselves out as

Many regulators have provisions that prevent at least some of their information, documents, or decisions from being used in civil proceedings. The purpose of these

Many regulators house the investigation, screening, prosecution, and adjudication of discipline matters within the same organization. Courts have consistently held that where such structures are

Many regulators are protected from civil lawsuits with respect to actions taken in good faith. Anyone suing a regulator must specify facts that, if proved,