They are generally established to serve and
protect the public interest through certifying, governing, quality controlling, and enforcing standards of practice for the teaching profession.
The mandate of the NCA is to help Canada's law
societies protect the public interest by assessing the legal education and professional experience of individuals who obtained their credentials outside of Canada or in a Canadian civil law program.
This rule is intended to permit trained Limited License Legal Technicians to provide limited legal assistance under carefully regulated circumstances in ways that expand the affordability of quality legal assistance
which protects the public interest.
Fourthly, the emphasis of regulatory bodies must
on protecting the public interest, and the degree of risk in permitting persons to hold themselves out as authorized to practice his profession.
He told the court that parliament had taken «a carefully considered, deliberate decision» to give ministers such as the attorney general power to override rulings by the freedom of information tribunal «to
protect the public interest where real and significant issues arise».
It is important for each law society to acknowledge these contextual differences and provide tailored guidelines for lawyers dealing with SRLs, which ultimately will
help protect the public interest and facilitate equal access to justice.
Professional regulatory
bodies protect the public interest by ensuring practising members are capable and qualified, but such a statutory mandate does not result in regulatory bodies owing a private law duty of care to individual members of the public.
Refusing to issue a certificate of registration to the applicant or imposing terms, conditions or limitations on the applicant's certificate of registration if, in the opinion of the Registration Committee, such action is necessary to
protect the public interest as a result of complaints, or criminal, disciplinary or other proceedings, against the applicant in any jurisdiction whether in or outside Canada, relating to the applicant's competency, conduct or character.
To improve our record of
protecting the public interest vs our own practitioners» interests in the face of complaints received herein about our practitioners from both the public and other real estate sales people regarding less than acceptable behaviours / practices as exhibited by said alleged offenders.
The Real Estate Council of British
Columbia protects the public interest by assuring the competency of real estate licensees and ensuring their compliance with the Real Estate Services Act.
The Advisory Group is examining the current real estate regulatory regime to determine whether it
adequately protects the public interest from real estate licensee conduct that is inconsistent with the duties and standards required of licensees.
The Council continuously strives to improve and to increase its effectiveness
at protecting the public interest, engaging with consumers and licensees, and fulfilling its mandate to enforce the Real Estate Services Act.
Similar to RECO, the BOFS is an administrative authority and is an arms - length regulatory body under the Ministry of Consumer Services charged
with protecting the public interest.
In Sumption's view, parliamentary scrutiny is perfectly adequate for the purpose of
protecting the public interest in the area of policy making, and it is the only way of doing so that contains any democratic legitimacy.
The Tribunal, if its members are any where near being open - minded, and if TREB's lawyers are as able as they must be, can / should rule in favour of
protecting the public interest from the perspective, on the surface of it, of a legal perspective only, all morality - driven driven arguments officially aside.
Ethical rules will not encompass all of the issues the Courts have considered in the context of conflicts litigation, but the ethical rules are a crucial means by which law
societies protect the public interest and provide guidance to lawyers.
For decades, successive governments have worked to improve the way Canada develops and manages regulations, with the aim
of protecting the public interest and supporting business competitiveness.
We believe that the approach we have taken, a clarification of the important duty of loyalty, reflects the reality of the practice of law while at the same
time protecting the public interest.
As reported in the Globe and Mail on Oct. 31, the judge ruled that the Law Society had put the commercial interests of its members ahead of its statutory duty to
protect the public interest.
Through the government's Open for Business initiative, the ministry helps make investing in Ontario more attractive for businesses, while
protecting the public interest.
The Board has lost touch with what it means to
protect the public interest.
One of the key principles is the need to
protect the public interest: Policies and programmes on infant and young child feeding can be designed, developed and implemented in the public interest only if professionals and institutions / organizations responsible for them engage in informed decision - making.