Today the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care released the much anticipated Independent Task Force report “To Zero: Independent Report of the Minister’s
In two recent cases the courts have refused to extend the time a practitioner could appeal a disciplinary decision. In the first case, the practitioner
Courts have said that in credibility cases adjudicators should say more than just that they believed one witness over another. There should be some explanation
In professional misconduct hearings the regulator generally does not have to prove that the practitioner deliberately engaged in the conduct. Proving the act or omission
Most municipalities in Ontario are required to hold open Council and Committee meetings. The public can be excluded only in limited circumstances where there is
It may be difficult to follow the numerous cases dealing with Trinity Western University. Just last week we reported that Ontario’s highest court upheld the
One of the most common arguments against revocation in serious cases of misconduct is that the member has learned his or her lesson and will
In Trinity Western University v. The Law Society of Upper Canada, 2016 ONCA 518 the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the refusal of the Law
In Groia v. The Law Society of Upper Canada, 2016 ONCA 471 the issue was balancing the duty of lawyers to be civil against the
One of the duties of a regulator in disciplinary matters is to disclose all relevant information it possesses unless the information is privileged. This duty