The applicant dentist sought judicial review of a decision by the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (HPARB), which confirmed an administrative disposition imposed by the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (ICRC) of the Royal College of Dentists.
The applicant argued that the ICRC's failure to explicitly consider an expert report rendered its decision unreasonable.
The Divisional Court dismissed the application, finding that HPARB reasonably concluded the failure to reference the report was not a sufficiently serious shortcoming to undermine the justification, intelligibility, and transparency of the ICRC's decision.
The court deferred to HPARB's assessment that the ICRC had considered all records obtained during its investigation.
