Regulators often negotiate, or even impose, restrictions on registrants in various contexts including registration with conditions, resolution of complaints and discipline orders. In Rak v.
Generally, regulators cannot be sued successfully for damages unless they acted in bad faith. Bad faith must be pleaded with particulars; a bald allegation is
The decisions of many complaints screening committees are subject to scrutiny by an independent tribunal. One of the options for the reviewing tribunal is to
Many regulators hold discipline hearings for registrants who do not have legal counsel. In Hirtle v. College of Nurses of Ontario, 2022 ONSC 1479 (CanLII),
Complaints’ screening committees frequently direct that the registrant participate in education and remediation. Registrants who dispute the accuracy of the complainant’s recitation of events sometimes
Issuing an interim order during an investigation is an extraordinary power that can have significant consequences for the practitioner. Courts scrutinize them to ensure that
The main issue in Caine v. Ontario College of Teachers, 2022 ONSC 2592 (CanLII), https://canlii.ca/t/jnzv7 was the discipline panel’s consideration of the credibility of witnesses.
Many regulators view Intimate Partner Violence as a serious matter in which they have a significant role to play. For the medical profession, at least,
On the heels of Ontario Teacher Candidates’ Council v. The Queen, 2021 ONSC 7386 (CanLII), https://canlii.ca/t/jlcvg, regulators can expect more challenges to their registration examinations
Hearings de novo are strange creatures of administrative law. In effect, they are a complete redoing of a prior administrative decision – by a different