Johanna Braden

The member pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for incidents during the 2002/2003 school year, including moving a student's chair while occupied, tapping furniture with significant force, carrying a baseball bat in class, using inappropriate language with a student, and videotaping students without consent.

The Discipline Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, ordering an admonishment and the completion of a course on positive classroom management strategies.

The Committee also ordered the publication of the decision with the member's full name, finding no compelling reason to depart from the general rule of transparency.

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

The member admitted to engaging in inappropriate boundary violations with students, including discussing highly personal and sexual matters, making disparaging remarks about staff and students, and showing favouritism.

The Discipline Committee accepted the member's guilty plea and the joint submission on penalty.

The member was ordered to be admonished, complete a course on maintaining appropriate boundaries, provide a practitioner's report, and have the decision published.

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

The member consented to the motion.

Pursuant to section 4.1 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act, the Discipline Committee granted the motion without a hearing, finding that the withdrawal of the allegations was reasonable and served the public interest.

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

The member consented to the withdrawal on the condition that he immediately resign his membership, surrender his certificate, and undertake never to teach again or seek reinstatement.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding that the member's resignation and the cancellation of his certificate protected the public interest.

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario proposed to revoke the respondent's liquor licence.

The respondent moved to stay the hearing, alleging witness tampering by an employee of the appellant.

The appellant retained a private investigator to interview witnesses.

The respondent sought a summons for the investigator to testify and produce interview records.

The Board refused, citing irrelevance.

The Divisional Court overturned the Board's decision, finding a breach of natural justice.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the appellant's appeal, holding that the investigator's evidence was material to the stay motion, the judicial review application was not premature due to the denial of natural justice, and the evidence was not protected by solicitor-client or litigation privilege.

The Ontario College of Teachers brought disciplinary proceedings against a member for engaging in inappropriate conversations and contacts with two adult female students.

The member did not attend the hearing but submitted a plea of no contest and an Agreed Statement of Facts.

The Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct for failing to maintain professional boundaries.

Accepting a joint submission on penalty, the Committee permitted the member to resign, cancelled his certificate of qualification, and imposed conditions on any future application for reinstatement.

The Committee also ordered the publication of the member's full name in the College's official publication.

The member, an occasional teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct after being criminally convicted of possessing child pornography and breaching a recognizance that prohibited contact with minors.

The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea.

Finding the member's conduct disgraceful and dishonourable, and noting the lack of forensic evidence suggesting he would not reoffend, the Committee ordered the immediate revocation of his certificate of qualification and registration.

The Applicant sought reinstatement of his Certificate of Registration, which was revoked in 1993 after he was found to have sexually abused three patients and subsequently convicted of criminal charges.

The Applicant, who was self-represented, argued he had rehabilitated himself and was no longer a risk.

The College opposed the application, tendering expert psychiatric evidence that the Applicant remained at a low-to-moderate risk of sexually aggressive behaviour and should not have access to patients.

The Discipline Committee dismissed the application, finding the Applicant failed to meet the burden of proving that the public would be protected if he were reinstated.

The Member pleaded guilty to professional misconduct before the Discipline Committee of the Ontario College of Teachers.

The Member admitted to making, possessing, and distributing child pornography, including superimposing students' faces onto explicit images, and using school equipment for these purposes.

The Member had previously pleaded guilty to related criminal charges and was sentenced to one year of incarceration.

The Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, finding the Member's actions deplorable and a breach of trust.

The Committee ordered the immediate revocation of the Member's certificate of qualification and registration.

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

The parties consented to the withdrawal on the condition that the Member resign his membership, surrender his certificate, and undertake never to teach again in any public or private school.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion, finding that the resignation and cancellation of the certificate in these circumstances served to protect the public interest.

The member, a teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct including inappropriate comments and physical contact with students.

Following an agreed statement of facts and a guilty plea, the Discipline Committee found the member guilty of professional misconduct for engaging in conduct unbecoming a member.

The Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand to be recorded on the register and the publication of a summary of the findings and order.

The Member, an elementary teacher, faced allegations of professional misconduct for borrowing over $1 million under false pretences from various residents and failing to repay the money.

The Member did not attend the hearing but entered into a Memorandum of Agreement pleading guilty to the allegations.

The Discipline Committee accepted the guilty plea and found the Member guilty of professional misconduct.

Accepting the joint submission on penalty, the Committee ordered a 14-month suspension of the Member's certificate of qualification and registration, along with publication of the decision.

The member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for discussing his employment as a bouncer at a strip club with an 18-year-old female student, including discussing her previous experience stripping.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering that the member be admonished and complete a course on maintaining appropriate boundaries with students.

The member, a former vice principal and teacher, was found guilty of professional misconduct following a plea of no contest.

The member had previously been convicted in criminal court of multiple counts of rape, indecent assault, and gross indecency against several female students over a twenty-year period.

The Discipline Committee accepted the joint submission on penalty and ordered the immediate revocation of the member's certificate of qualification and registration.

The Ontario College of Teachers and the member brought a joint motion seeking leave to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct and incompetence.

The parties consented to dispose of the proceeding without a hearing under section 4.1 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act, based on the member's written undertaking to complete a program in classroom management for special education students and submit to a Teacher Performance Appraisal upon returning to teaching.

The Discipline Committee found the agreement reasonable, in the public interest, and granted the motion to withdraw the allegations.

The member, a teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for engaging in inappropriate and unprofessional behaviour with a female student, including excessive communication, exchanging personal information, and continuing the relationship after her graduation.

The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, publication of the decision, and a requirement that the member complete a course on maintaining appropriate boundaries with students should he obtain employment requiring a teaching certificate.

The Ontario College of Teachers and the member brought a joint motion seeking leave to withdraw allegations of professional misconduct and incompetence.

The parties consented to a resolution requiring the member to complete a course on student-teacher boundaries and write a letter of apology.

The Discipline Committee granted the motion pursuant to section 4.1 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act, finding the agreed resolution reasonable and in the public interest.

The Ontario College of Teachers and the member brought a consent motion seeking leave to withdraw the allegations of professional misconduct set out in the Notice of Hearing.

The College advised the Discipline Committee that there was no evidence to support the allegations.

The Committee granted the motion and authorized the withdrawal of the allegations, finding the resolution to be in the public interest.

The parties entered into a sale agreement containing an arbitration clause that precluded appeals.

A dispute arose, and a subsequent tripartite arbitration agreement was signed to include a third party.

The appellant's claim was dismissed at arbitration, and it sought leave to appeal under section 45(1) of the Arbitration Act, 1991.

The application judge held that the original sale agreement governed and precluded an appeal.

The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal, finding that the subsequent arbitration agreement was a free-standing agreement that governed the arbitration, thereby permitting the appellant to seek leave to appeal.

Ontario Hydro brought a motion to quash Denison Mines Ltd.'s appeal from an order dismissing its application for leave to appeal an arbitration award.

Ontario Hydro argued the order was interlocutory and thus not appealable to the Court of Appeal.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the motion to quash, finding that the appeal fell within an exception to the general rule against appealing leave decisions because the application judge allegedly declined jurisdiction.

Furthermore, the Court held that an order refusing leave to appeal under section 45 of the Arbitration Act, 1991 is a final order, not an interlocutory one, regardless of whether it was brought by application or motion.