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  • Relational Bias by Adjudicators

    An adjudicator’s exploration of personal opportunities with a participant in a pending case before them can constitute an appearance of bias. Typically, this occurs where the communication with the party (or their representative) involves undue familiarity or where the financial incentive for the ad … Read more »

  • Publishing Findings Pending Appeal

    Balancing a regulator’s duty of transparency against a registrant’s interest in privacy can often be challenging. Perhaps none would be more daunting than the balancing that had to be done in Charkhandeh v College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta, 2025 ABCA 24 (CanLII). The dentist was found guilty of … Read more »

  • Complaining Against Complainants

    Several court decisions indicate that a complainant enjoys a legal privilege when filing a formal complaint to a regulatory body and are immune from a civil action for any resulting damages caused by their complaint, such as defamation. However, it is less clear whether a complainant themselves can … Read more »

  • Screening Out Serious Complaints

    Most regulators can decline to investigate complaints that are frivolous, vexatious, an abuse of process or otherwise not in the public interest to pursue. It is often easier to “screen out” less serious concerns as the risk of taking no action is low. However, there are circumstances in which even … Read more »

  • Four Lessons for Regulators

    Those of us in the field of professional regulation tend (perhaps wrongly) to place more importance on court-level judgments than on tribunal decisions. While court-level pronouncements have greater precedential value, tribunal decisions can still provide meaningful learning for regulators. The deci … Read more »