It is not enough for a complaints screening committee to say that the complaint does not raise a significant concern of professional misconduct. The committee
In a number of recent cases, regulators have found that practitioners have a professional relationship with people to whom they provide intermittent services unless the
Many regulators prohibit the use of testimonials because they may be inherently unverifiable and, thus, misleading. In addition, the process of gathering testimonials tests the
Can the sanction (or order) in a discipline hearing be determined by a panel that is different from the panel that made the finding of
In BSA Diagnostics Imaging Inc. v The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, 2017 ONSC 1950, the Divisional Court upheld the legal authority of
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
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
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 for a lawyer to say to a social worker that he should shoot her because she “takes away too many kids”.
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