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Social worker reprimanded and ordered to pay costs after admitting to sexual relationship with former client.
The Registrant, a social worker, admitted to professional misconduct for entering into a romantic and sexual relationship with a former client approximately four months after providing her with social work services.
The Discipline Committee found that this conduct violated the College's Standards of Practice, which prohibit sexual relations with a former client for a period of one year following the termination of services.
The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, publication of the decision, and $1,000 in costs, taking into account the Registrant's undertaking to permanently resign from the College and never re-apply.
The Court of Appeal upheld the striking of a Charter claim against private lawyers and the Law Society as disclosing no reasonable cause of action.
The appellant appealed an order striking his Notice of Application and refusing leave to amend, which sought Charter relief against the respondents.
The motion judge found the Charter claim could not succeed, was a collateral attack on a Law Society decision, and that the Charter did not apply to the individual respondents.
The Court of Appeal upheld the motion judge's decision, finding no error in the Charter interpretation or application, and that summary determination was not an abuse of process.
The Court also dismissed the appellant's motion for review of a single judge's order regarding joint representation, deeming it frivolous and an abuse of process.
