Emile Ramlochan

The respondents, a professional engineer and his engineering firm, faced disciplinary proceedings following the partial collapse of a five-storey condominium building under construction.

The respondents admitted to professional misconduct, including negligence, failing to safeguard life and property, and failing to comply with applicable building codes.

Specifically, they provided incorrect instructions to a steel fabricator, failed to correct deficient shop drawings, and issued inaccurate field reports indicating the structure was stable when it was not.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a three-month suspension of the member's licence and the firm's certificate of authorization, and a restriction requiring the member to practice under direct supervision until passing an advanced structural design exam.

The Ontario College of Teachers alleged that the Member engaged in professional misconduct by psychologically, emotionally, and sexually abusing a former student.

The Member brought preliminary motions for an adjournment to seek third-party records and for a stay of proceedings based on abuse of process, both of which were dismissed.

After a contested hearing, the Discipline Committee found that the Member had befriended the student, provided his BBM pin, and sent her a message stating she looked beautiful.

The Committee concluded this conduct constituted psychological, emotional, and sexual abuse, as well as disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional conduct.

The Member's certificate of qualification and registration was suspended on an interim basis pending a penalty hearing.

The Discipline Committee determined the penalty and costs for a teacher found guilty of professional misconduct for misusing sick leave.

The member performed at a concert while on sick leave and systematically exhausted his sick time allocations over three academic years.

The Committee ordered a reprimand, a 12-month suspension, and coursework on professional ethics.

The Committee also ordered the member to pay $30,000 in costs, finding that his uncooperative and vexatious conduct as a self-represented litigant, including unnecessarily lengthy cross-examinations and repetitive motions, significantly and unjustifiably prolonged the hearing.

The member was previously found to have engaged in professional misconduct by making derogatory and offensive remarks to students, making inappropriate sexualized comments on Facebook, and demonstrating poor professional behaviour.

At the penalty hearing, the Discipline Committee ordered a reprimand, a five-month suspension of the member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration, and the successful completion of coursework regarding classroom management and appropriate communication.

The member requested an adjournment of his penalty hearing due to health issues and an inability to obtain legal representation.

The College consented to a short adjournment, noting this was the member's first adjournment request at the penalty stage.

The Discipline Committee granted the adjournment, ordering the parties to collaborate on scheduling a new date that will be peremptory on the member.

The member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for engaging in inappropriate electronic communications with a former student over social media.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including psychological or emotional abuse of a student, and conduct that was disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a written reprimand, a three-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the completion of a course on boundary violations.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member for alleged professional misconduct, including making inappropriate comments to students in class, at a gas station, and on Facebook.

The Discipline Committee found that the member verbally and psychologically abused students by calling them derogatory names.

The Committee also found that the member's Facebook posts, which included sexist and demeaning comments about women and victims of sexual assault, constituted sexual misconduct.

The member was found guilty of professional misconduct, with a penalty hearing to be scheduled.

The Ontario College of Teachers alleged that a member misused his allotted sick time over three academic years by using his full allotment and returning to work each June to renew his benefits, and by performing at a concert while on sick leave.

The Discipline Committee found that the member's pattern of absences was a deliberate attempt to renew his sick benefits.

The Committee also found that while the member's activities at the concert did not strictly violate his medical restrictions, his failure to engage in the accommodation process while capable of performing at a concert constituted a misuse of sick time.

The member was found guilty of professional misconduct for engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional conduct, and conduct unbecoming a member.

The member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for touching a colleague without her consent on multiple occasions.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations and agreed to a statement of uncontested facts.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, specifically engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional conduct, and conduct unbecoming a member.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a four-month suspension of the member's certificate of qualification and registration, and the successful completion of coursework on professional boundaries.

The Member, a teacher, pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct relating to the possession of child pornography on his cell phone and SD card.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including engaging in a prohibited act involving child pornography, disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct, and conduct unbecoming a member.

Pursuant to the mandatory penalty provisions of the Ontario College of Teachers Act, 1996, the Committee ordered the immediate revocation of the Member's Certificate of Qualification and Registration and a written reprimand.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against the member for professional misconduct.

The member entered a plea of no contest and the parties presented a joint submission on penalty.

The Discipline Committee found that the member engaged in professional misconduct contrary to subsections 1(18) and 1(19) of Ontario Regulation 437/97.

The Committee accepted the joint submission and ordered a reprimand, a four-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the completion of coursework on professional boundaries.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a discipline proceeding against a member who served as a Director of Education.

The member pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct involving a years-long pattern of making disrespectful, demeaning, and threatening comments to and about staff and trustees, making offensive comments about Indigenous people, falling asleep during work (including a student hearing), and throwing board property.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional, and unbecoming conduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a written reprimand, a four-month suspension of the member's certificate, and the successful completion of a conflict resolution course.

The Member, a teacher, engaged in a pattern of inappropriate behaviour and boundary violations with a student, both while she was his student and after she graduated.

This included sending inappropriate and sexually suggestive messages, meeting outside of school, and discussing personal and marital issues.

The Member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including psychological or emotional abuse and sexual misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a 20-month suspension, and terms and conditions requiring the Member to complete a course on professional boundaries and undergo therapy.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought a motion to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct against the member.

The member agreed to resign, never teach again in Ontario, and not seek reinstatement.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, noting the vulnerability of a young witness, the loss of significant evidence, and that the member's resignation and undertaking adequately protected the public interest.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought discipline proceedings against a member for making inappropriate, discriminatory, and sexually suggestive comments to and about students in class and on publicly available podcasts.

The member pleaded no contest to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct, including verbal abuse, psychological or emotional abuse, and sexual misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a seven-month suspension, and the completion of coursework on classroom communication and cultural sensitivity.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought discipline proceedings against the Member, a university athletic coach, for professional misconduct.

The Member did not contest allegations that he engaged in a sexual relationship with a high school student athlete and later engaged in inappropriate boundary violations with a university student athlete.

The Discipline Committee found the Member guilty of professional misconduct, including sexual abuse of a student.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered the mandatory revocation of the Member's certificate of qualification and registration, and directed that he receive a written reprimand.

The Member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for verbally, physically, and psychologically abusing racialized students in his class.

The Member admitted to making racist, demeaning, and threatening comments, using profanity, and engaging in physically aggressive behaviour such as kicking chairs and flicking a student's head.

The Discipline Committee accepted an agreed statement of facts and found the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a reprimand, a five-month suspension of the Member's certificate, and the completion of coursework in anger management, classroom management, and cultural diversity.

The Member, a school principal, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for making four inappropriate and disrespectful comments to and in the presence of staff members.

The Discipline Committee unanimously found the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

The parties presented a joint submission on penalty proposing a reprimand, a three-month suspension, and coursework.

A majority of the panel rejected the joint submission, finding that a three-month suspension was unduly harsh and unhinged from the facts, as the Member's conduct did not involve physical touching and fell on the lower end of the scale of objectionable comments.

The majority ordered a reprimand and coursework without a suspension.

The dissenting panel member would have accepted the joint submission.

The applicant condominium corporation applied for an order requiring the respondent tenants and intervenor owner to remove material stored in a parking unit, which violated the corporation's declaration and rules.

The Condominium Authority Tribunal found that the stored material was not a motor vehicle, constituting a breach of the governing documents.

The Tribunal ordered the respondents and intervenor to remove the material within 21 days, failing which the corporation could remove it and charge back the costs, and awarded $150 in costs to the applicant.

The College brought a motion to adjourn a discipline hearing after the self-represented member, who had initially agreed to plead no contest, made statements during the plea inquiry raising concerns about the voluntariness of the plea.

The member did not object to the adjournment.

The Discipline Committee declined to accept the Statement of Uncontested Facts and Plea of No Contest and granted the adjournment so the matter could proceed as a contested hearing before a newly-constituted panel.