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Welcome and Introduction

Lisa C. Fong — Ng Ariss Fong, Vancouver
Angela R. Westmacott, QC — Lovett Westmacott, Victoria

Regulating Professional Businesses

• differences in regulating professionals versus their businesses
• the case for and against regulating businesses
• registration, quality assurance, investigation and discipline
• lessons learned and challenges ahead
  

Deborah Armour — Chief Legal Officer, Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Geoff Thiele — Director, Legal Services, Real Estate Council of BC, Vancouver

Labour Mobility

• interprovincial labour  mobility agreements
• enforcement mechanisms
• important issues
  • equivalent occupation
  • character
  • competency
  • currency of practice
  • “legitimate objectives”
• cases to know 

Jason Herbert — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver

Networking Break

Difficult Inquiry Issues: View from Two Sides

• responding to an investigation
• continuing an investigation when there is concurrent legislation
• taking interim action on a registrant’s license: how much information is enough before proceeding and how is a defense to be treated
• charging standards for sending to discipline hearing

Natasha Dookie — Deputy Registrar/Chief Officer Registration, Inquiry & Discipline, College of Registered Nurses, Vancouver
Jennifer Strate — Senior Manager (Acting), Inquiry & Discipline, College of Registered Nurses, Vancouver
Lara C. H. Zee — Harper Grey LLP, Vancouver

Networking Lunch (Provided)

Unauthorized Practice and Contempt

• injunctions to cease unauthorized   practice
•  injunctions to search and seizure evidence
•  recent cases:
  •  unauthorized cosmetic surgery
  •  unauthorized dental practice
  •  seizing electronic equipment: phones and computers

Brent Olthuis — Hunter Litigation Chambers, Vancouver

Key Recent Regulatory Cases

• who decides what is in the public interest
• regulating civility
• tribunal review of tribunal decisions
• delay or not to delay?

Sarah A. Hellmann — College of Physicians & Surgeons of BC, Vancouver
Graeme Keirstead — Chief Legal Counsel, College of Physicians & Surgeons of BC, Vancouver
Jaia Rai — Beach Avenue Barristers, Vancouver

Networking Break

Trends in Professional Regulation

• regulating of regulators
• loss of self-regulation
• mandatory transparency and discipline
• increased litigation against regulators

Rebecca Durcan — Steinecke Maciura LeBlanc, Toronto
Lisa C. Fong — Ng Ariss Fong, Vancouver
Katrina Haymond — Field Law, Edmonton
Angela R. Westmacott, QC — Lovett Westmacott, Victoria