Sentences with phrase «of professional regulatory bodies»

Limits of «reasonableness» on ethical and practice rules: Implied limits on the powers of professional regulatory bodies to superintend their professions was illustrated by the B.C. Supreme Court's decision that a college unreasonably exercised its by - law making powers in Sobeys West Inc. v. College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, 2014 BCSC 1414 (under appeal).

While enabling statutes of professional regulatory bodies may not require that respondents respond to complaints, particular regulators may enact standards that require their registrants to cooperate during investigations.

The BC decision in Sobeys upholds a broad discretion of professional regulatory bodies to pass bylaws that, in their view, establish professional standards in the public interest.

The BC decision, if left in place, limits the jurisdiction of professional regulatory bodies (in BC) to decline accrediting educational programs that discriminate, but do so on religious grounds.

The primary mandate of these professional regulatory bodies is to protect the public.

In 1989, the organization, which changed its name in 1969 to better reflect the scope of its work, spearheaded the establishment of a Legislative Recognition committee to advocate for the creation of a professional regulatory body for ECEs in Ontario.

Not exact matches

But despite frequent federal government discussion of the matter, Ottawa lacks any real authority to make progress — professional regulatory bodies are a provincial matter.

The PPA will help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus, professional health and child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.

Also peruse the Web sites of professional associations, such as ISPE or PDA, and regulatory bodies such as FDA, EMEA, or HSA.

ASIC is one of the few financial regulatory bodies in the world that is highly regarded in the financial industry as being strict, as well as professional.

There is also a self - regulatory body, the National Futures Association (NFA), to further monitor the activity of all market professionals.

This ruling would have the effect of relegating BC lawyers to a pre-cloud technological backwater, which does not serve the public's interest nor the LSBC's own principal strategic goal of becoming a «more innovative and effective professional regulatory body.»

Professional bodies are fundamentally about relationships, in terms of its membership networks, regulatory stakeholders and international networks.

In our 2015 regulatory round - up (here), we described the ongoing dispute arising in the Trinity Western cases, where three professional regulatory bodies — law societies in three provinces (B.C., Ontario and Nova Scotia)-- refused to accredit a religious university which required that students sign a «community covenant» requiring that they abstain from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman.

The presentation also included a practical discussion of common confidentiality and privacy scenarios encountered by professional regulatory bodies with respect to information produced, collected or used during the registration, inquiry and discipline processes.

Registration, mobility and good character: The manner in which a professional regulatory body may assess the «good character» of mobility applicants was addressed by the Alberta Queen's Bench in the Lum case (2015 ABQB 12, which we wrote about here.

Third, the Scott case addresses when a professional regulatory body may take «extraordinary» action to protect the public during an investigation and pending the outcome of a discipline hearing.

One of the difficulties faced by professional regulatory bodies is how to deal with professionals they have disciplined who then also face sanctions following criminal proceedings on the same facts.

He specialises in the analysis and solution of complex regulatory problems, advising regulators, government departments, law enforcement agencies, statutory and professional bodies.

Our lawyers have acted for architects, engineers, lawyers, dentists, and accountants in professional errors and omissions claims, advised clients before professional regulatory bodies, acted for professional administrative bodies, provided advice regarding investigations conducted by administrative authorities, and have acted in judicial reviews of decisions made by professional regulatory bodies.

On the one hand, professional rules of conduct are designed to preserve the traditional vision, but, on the other hand, those rules are created by regulatory bodies dominated by corporate practitioners.

Perhaps the home for a body of tools, to a greater extent than commentary and source materials, is in compliance and regulatory markets, that include those qualified professionals who work as in - house counsel and the like.

Doctors and their professional regulatory bodies must grapple with challenging questions of when and how a physician may legally assist their patients in dying.

Professional regulatory bodies in British Columbia must preserve personal privacy, and treat matters as confidential, as and to the extent they must under their enabling statutes, and under BC's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act («FIPPA»).

Members of a profession have an ethical obligation to cooperate with their regulatory body, failing which may constitute professional misconduct.

2 - 23.2 (1) A lawyer must not practise law in an MDP unless (a) the lawyer and all members of the MDP are in compliance with Rules 2 - 23.1 to 2 - 23.12 and the Professional Conduct Handbook, (b) all lawyers who are members of the MDP have obtained express permission under this Division to practise law in the MDP, (c) all non-lawyer members of the MDP are of good character and repute, (d) all members of the MDP agree in writing (i) that practising lawyers who are members of the MDP will have actual control over the delivery of legal services by the MDP, (ii) that non-lawyer members of the MDP will not interfere, directly or indirectly with the lawyer's (A) obligation to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (B) exercise of independent professional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct orProfessional Conduct Handbook, (b) all lawyers who are members of the MDP have obtained express permission under this Division to practise law in the MDP, (c) all non-lawyer members of the MDP are of good character and repute, (d) all members of the MDP agree in writing (i) that practising lawyers who are members of the MDP will have actual control over the delivery of legal services by the MDP, (ii) that non-lawyer members of the MDP will not interfere, directly or indirectly with the lawyer's (A) obligation to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (B) exercise of independent professional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct orProfessional Conduct Handbook, and (B) exercise of independent professional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct orprofessional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct orProfessional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct or competence.

The purpose of the relevant part of IAA 1999 was to ensure that any person wishing to provide immigration advice or services had either to be registered with the immigration services commissioner (who had statutory power under IAA 1999 to regulate the activities of persons so registered) or be a person subject to the regulatory control of one of the designated professional bodies.

It was difficult to see how a responsible professional body would wish to authorise a person to perform services for which being a practising barrister provided legal eligibility while at the same time abdicating any regulatory control over the performance of such services.

To this end, the Bill provides for the creation of a bureau of disciplinary council chairs within the Office des professions du Quebec (an independent government agency under the authority of the Minister of Justice responsible for the enforcement of laws that regulate professionals and their regulatory bodies).

But professional regulatory hearings also bear some similarity to criminal proceedings as well: regulatory bodies are statutory bodies that perform a governmental function and are subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; they operate in the public interest; and they owe the same disclosure obligations of the Crown under Stinchcombe.

Alysha represents a broad range of clients, including multi-national corporations, professional regulatory bodies, individuals and small business owners.

Lawyers should have an independent professional association that represents the interests of lawyers, which is separate from the regulatory body.

Registration — good character: A high water mark for deference to regulatory bodies assessing the «good character» of applicants was set by Alberta courts, which confirmed an Alberta regulatory body's refusal to register a BC professional (Lum v. Council of Alberta Dental Association and College, 2016 ABCA 154, summarized here, and also 2015 ABQB 12, summarized here).

A small number of our lawyers are regulated by other professional legal bodies including The Bar Standards Board, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, and in the case of lawyers admitted in other jurisdictions, the relevant regulatory body of their place of admission.

Professional regulatory bodies require applicants to be of good character or morally fit before admitting them into membership.

Our professionals bring decades of collective experience to these complex matters, gleaned from working in the trenches with federal and state legislative bodies, key regulatory agencies and independent commissions.

In cases where confidentiality of sensitive information is a concern, erring on the side of caution is important since, unlike superior courts, which can prevent misuse of confidential information through court order, professional regulatory bodies have no express power to control what complainants do with information once in their possession.

She advises professional regulatory bodies on all areas of their responsibilities including quality assurance, registration, inquiry, discipline, reviews and appeals.

These include the representation of professionals before licensing boards and other regulatory bodies.

Our professional practices team can advise you if you are facing, or are at risk of facing, a disciplinary or fitness - to - practise investigation by your regulatory body.

The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Laffin v. Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, 2012 ONCA 846 provides a sober reminder to professional regulatory bodies that in assessing applicants for registration, they are confined to assessing applications against the particular requirements set out in their enabling statutesProfessional Geoscientists of Ontario, 2012 ONCA 846 provides a sober reminder to professional regulatory bodies that in assessing applicants for registration, they are confined to assessing applications against the particular requirements set out in their enabling statutesprofessional regulatory bodies that in assessing applicants for registration, they are confined to assessing applications against the particular requirements set out in their enabling statutes and bylaws.

As corporations increasingly look to offer professional services in novel settings such as supermarkets, department stores, gyms, spas and hotels, regulatory bodies will need to continue to grapple with issues such as who owns patients» medical information and what are the unique obligations of professions working in these settings.

Similarly, the BC Court of Appeal has stated a regulatory body's interpretation of its own professional standards (e.g., whether such standards extend to singular instances of substandard care) deserve deference, as long as a decision is justified, transparent and intelligible: Salway v. Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, 2010 BCCA 94 professional standards (e.g., whether such standards extend to singular instances of substandard care) deserve deference, as long as a decision is justified, transparent and intelligible: Salway v. Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, 2010 BCCA 94 Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, 2010 BCCA 94 at para. 32.

Tribunals and Charter values: For example, the decision in Doré makes clear that professional regulatory bodies making decisions or exercising powers that collide with Charter values, such as freedom of expression, are responsible for understanding those Charter values, respecting them, and balancing them with statutory objectives.

On its face, the HPRB's decision defines a «matter» which must be investigated and disposed of by an inquiry committee expansively enough to capture not only isolated incidents of negligence or incompetent provision of professional services, but also issues such as overbilling that many professional regulatory bodies treat as outside their jurisdiction.

He also assists clients responding to complaints to professional bodies, regulatory authorities and ombudsman services and advises a range of insurers on policy coverage, includ8ing issues as to notification, minimum terms and fraud.

Professional regulatory bodies routinely review applicants» educational backgrounds as part of their registration assessments.

Founded in 1992, the Toronto - based firm has a diverse roster of clients that ranges from individuals and small businesses, to large and multinational companies, to professional associations and regulatory bodies.

Although some respondents may question the need for a regulatory body to put «expert» witnesses in front of a panel that may itself consist of professional members with «expert» knowledge, many cases establish expert witnesses as necessary for a proper evidentiary record, even though the entire panel may possess the same knowledge, e.g., to allow expertise to be tested by cross-examination, and to permit a review or appeal body to carry out its function.

The year 2016 involved outcomes to many of the outstanding regulatory issues that we flagged in our 2015 professional regulatory law roundup, especially those which addressed what constitutes the «public interest» that regulatory bodies serve.