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- UK Report on Private Equity Investments in Professional Practices
A report by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has broad implications for UK regulated professions with private equity investment (even though the focus of this report relates to veterinary practices). Over the last dozen years, six large veterinary groups in the UK have increased th … Read more »
- Updated Oversight Criteria for Regulators
The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) of the United Kingdom is the oversight body for UK’s health and social work professions regulators. The PSA has just updated its Standards for Regulators which sets out the criteria for how it assesses and reports on their performance. Some highlights tha … Read more »
- If It Quacks Like a Duck
No one engaging in the unauthorized practice of medicine can rely “on ‘weasel words’ to avoid accountability and gloss over the substance of what [they are] actually doing.â€� So says an Alberta Court in: College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta v Makis, 2026 ABKB 159 (CanLII). Mr. Makis, … Read more »
- Let Me Count the Defences
There are many types of claims (called “causes of actionâ€�) that can be made against regulators. There are also several defences that regulators can raise against such claims and absent exceptional circumstances, the defences usually succeed. This principle was illustrated in Hanif v. College of … Read more »
- Scope of a Restraining Order
Many regulators can ask a court to direct an unregistered person to stop performing controlled acts, using a protected title, or holding themselves out as practising the profession. When granted, the court order often simply tells the unregistered person to comply with the law. However, where the is … Read more »