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- The Right to Rebut?
Many regulators frequently provide a copy of the registrant’s response to a complaint to the complainant for comment. Doing so can assist in providing the complaints-screening body with a complete-as-possible information base for its decision. It also inspires confidence that the concerns are being … Read more »
- Registration Runaround
A concern for regulators arises when applicants for registration, who are practicing elsewhere at the time, foresee disciplinary issues developing in their existing jurisdiction. A court in Newfoundland and Labrador supported a regulator’s decision to deny registration to an applicant who minimized … Read more »
- Right-Touch Regulation Redux
Perhaps the most consequential document in professional regulation in the English-speaking world this century is Right-Touch Regulation published by the UK oversight body, the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). The document outlines how policy makers and regulators should apply risk management … Read more »
- Reason Writing Omissions
Writing reasons for a regulatory decision is not easy, especially for non-lawyers. An administrative body’s reasons are the primary basis upon which a court will review its decision. A decision from Newfoundland and Labrador illustrates the kinds of missteps that can catch an administrative body up. … Read more »
- Interim Orders – Take Two
The Alberta regulator for chiropractors got the interim order process right on its second try. In Basaraba v College of Chiropractors of Alberta, 2025 ABKB 572 (CanLII), the regulator received information that a chiropractor had inappropriately touched patients without informed consent and, in fact, … Read more »