The Courts have affirmed yet again that regulators are not vicariously liable for the conduct of the people they regulate. Vicarious liability is legal responsibility
There is increasing pressure on regulators to provide more information about practitioners who have engaged in behaviour of concern. As a result there is increasing
Last month the Professional Standards Authority of the UK published an update of the criteria it uses to assess the performance of the regulators it
The question of whether a discipline order is stayed (or halted) when there is an appeal to court depends on the applicable statute. In Abrametz
Courts are, justifiably, quite concerned about the plight of litigants appearing at hearings without legal assistance. Courts have imposed a number of duties on tribunals
Can the courts be used to effect change in the way that investigators conduct their inquiries? That issue is squarely raised in Williams v London
Unregistered persons can be creative in the use of language to describe themselves and their services. When there is a risk that members of the
Most regulators have a statutory confidentiality provision. Some, but not all, of those provisions protect regulators from having to produce information or act as a
Policy makers are torn about how much discretion to give regulators to refuse to process complaints that are outside of the regulator’s jurisdiction or are
In Francis v Newfoundland and Labrador Pharmacy Board, 2018 NLSC 248, http://canlii.ca/t/hwgdr a group of pharmacists tried a second time to challenge the validity of