Sentences with phrase «cases of professional misconduct»

Amendments under bill 111 will enable the LSUC «to strengthen its hearing and appeals process for alleged cases of professional misconduct involving lawyers and paralegals, making it more transparent, fair and cost - effective,» said the law society.

Harjinder specialises in representing union members within the health sector in cases of professional misconduct.

We write in our capacity as citizens of the Republic of Ghana invoking the powers of this Commission under Article 218 (a) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and section 7 (1)(i) of the CHRAJ Act 1993 (Act 456), as amended, which states «to investigate complaints of violations of fundamental rights and freedoms, injustice, corruption, abuse of power and unfair treatment of any person by a public officer in the exercise of his official duties», to investigate a case of professional misconduct bothering on official corruption and corruption - related activities involving ACP Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah, the current acting Director - General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.

Not exact matches

Two Quebec cases involve corporations being sued for professional misconduct or breach of contract, while a British Columbia case has to do with contract law as it concerns subsidized tenants with trust funds.

A Law Society of Manitoba panel revoked Howard Tennenhouse's licence on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to professional misconduct related to 55 of his more than 100 residential school cases.

Regulation of Health Professionals: The Impact of Recent Developments to Enhance Transparency, Protect the Public and Prevent Sex Abuse: On May 4 - 5, 2017, Lisa C. Fong was part of a panel speaking on transparency in sexual misconduct cases at the Canadian Bar Association's National Health Law Summit at Niagara on the Lake, Ontario.

The court did, however, note the College's argument that non-visual evidence has been accepted in criminal cases of sexual assault, and in regulatory cases involving allegations of sexual misconduct by health professionals.

Dan McFadden represents clients in cases involving business torts, contract and insurance claims, and allegations of professional misconduct and malpractice.

The leading authority was Bolton v Law Society [1994] 2 All ER 486, in which it was stated that it would require a very strong case to interfere with sentence in such a case because the disciplinary committee were the best possible people for weighing the seriousness of the professional misconduct.

The case creates a «very high threshold» for regulated health professionals seeking to challenge a proposed interim suspension or interim conditions, in the face of a complaint alleging serious misconduct, such as sexual abuse, says Lad Kucis, partner and co-chairman of the health law group with Gardiner Roberts LLP in Toronto.

As illustrated in the Farbeh case, conclusions of professional misconduct must be supported by findings in reasons that support such conclusions: Farbeh v. College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, 2011 BCSC 1676.

Jonathan has a considerable amount of experience representing workers in professional misconduct cases.

Clare is an experienced solicitor representing a mix of trade union members and private clients in cases of criminal and professional misconduct law.

Ethics lawyer Gavin MacKenzie with Davis LLP says Harding's words were «ill - advised and discourteous,» but he agrees they didn't constitute a professional misconduct «particularly since he had a legitimate point to make about the inappropriateness of the law clerk engaging him in correspondence about the interpretation of case law.»

The necessity of such immunity (as well as the limits of such immunity where a plaintiff alleges bad faith conduct) is illustrated in the Ontario case of Deep v. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, 2010 ONSC 5248 (September 23, 2010), where the College revoked the claimant's certificate of registration based on findings of professional misconduct and incompetence.

John is currently advising and acting on behalf of the claimants in a number of professional negligence cases including: a farmer in a case against an architect arising from the collapse of a barn roof; a SME in a case against a barrister and a solicitor arising from the misconduct of litigation against two separate finance companies in related disputes; a trustee in bankruptcy in a case against a solicitor arising from the misconduct of litigation against a financial advisor; and another trustee in bankruptcy in a case against a solicitor arising from the misconduct of a commercial property transaction.

The College agreed with the registrant, who submitted that the College did not have jurisdiction to hear the complaint except in the clearest and most serious of cases, and that the alleged events, even if true, were not sufficiently clear and serious enough to constitute professional misconduct.

As I have written in a recent article on the topic of shoplifting demand letters, when lawyers send letters that mislead the public as to their legal obligations, there is a strong case that these lawyers are breaching rules of professional misconduct by, among other things, knowingly assisting their clients in dishonest conduct and violating their obligations to act in good faith and practice law with integrity.

Whether you or a loved one has been injured due to someone else's misconduct, catastrophic injury claims require the immediate attention of a legal professional who will go the distance for your case.

Legally, the case affirms an approach in which provocation is simply one of many factors to consider in determining whether misconduct occurred, and not a defence or excuse for professional misconduct.

53.1 In an appropriate case, a panel may make an order requiring a member who the panel finds has committed an act of professional misconduct or finds to be incompetent to pay all or part of the following costs and expenses:

Disclosure is permissible in very limited cases including: (i) the written consent of the client or the written consent of the rightful owner of the confidential information is obtained; (ii) an express court judgement ordered such disclosure is obtained and only to the extent needed by the court; or (iii) if the attorney, his partners or employees are accused of a criminal charge or a civil claim arising from the relationship with the client or a negligence or professional misconduct.

Ng Ariss Fong has established precedent - setting cases concerning the necessity of mental culpability for findings of professional misconduct in BC, the right of professionals to maintain anonymity during appeal processes, errors in reasoning by tribunals, and public interest factors bearing on name publication decisions.

He was then brought before the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society on a raft of professional misconduct accusations unrelated to the criminal case, ranging from double - booking his time to trying to steal other lawyers» clients to the attempted extortion of a Crown witness.

That was one of the issues in a Law Society Tribunal case in which the panel made findings of professional misconduct against a Whitby, Ont., lawyer who acted for a client in her matrimonial dispute.

In most cases, law society disciplinary regimes respond after a complaint is filed alleging that a lawyer has engaged in some kind of professional misconduct.

Additionally, a disciplinary committee of the Council, if it finds that a licensee has committed professional misconduct, can make various disciplinary orders including reprimanding or suspending licensees, or imposing a disciplinary penalty of not more than $ 250,000 in the case of a representative, associate broker, or managing broker and not more than $ 500,000 in the case of a brokerage or former brokerage.