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Dental hygienist found guilty of professional misconduct for practising while inactive and misleading an investigator.
The Registrant, a dental hygienist holding an inactive certificate of registration, provided dental hygiene services to multiple clients and signed an insurance claim form.
She subsequently made untrue statements to a College investigator regarding her practice and documentation.
The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and Guilty Plea, finding the Registrant guilty of professional misconduct.
The Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, a one-month suspension, completion of ethics and jurisprudence courses, a $500 fine, and $1,800 in costs.
Appeal and judicial review of interlocutory discipline committee decision quashed for prematurity and lack of jurisdiction.
The applicant physician brought an appeal and an application for judicial review challenging an interlocutory decision of the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
The Committee had ruled it had jurisdiction to hear allegations regarding patients not specifically named in the Notice of Hearing.
The Divisional Court quashed the application for judicial review for prematurity, finding no exceptional circumstances to intervene in the ongoing disciplinary process, as the Committee reasonably concluded it had jurisdiction.
The Court also quashed the appeal, holding that it lacked jurisdiction under the Health Professions Procedural Code to hear an appeal from an interlocutory decision.
Appeal of contempt finding and $1 million fine dismissed for flagrant breach of health professions order.
The appellants, an optician and his associated companies, appealed a finding of contempt and a $1 million fine for flagrantly breaching a court order.
The underlying order prohibited them from prescribing and dispensing corrective lenses without a prescription from an optometrist or physician.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, finding that the notice of application was adequate, the self-represented appellant received a fair hearing, and the consolidated hearing on liability and penalty did not vitiate the contempt finding.
The $1 million fine was upheld due to the appellants' deliberate and protracted disobedience of the court order.
Tribunal orders Commission to bring into force potato pricing settlement agreements between processors and Board.
The Hostess Frito Lay Company and Super Pufft Snacks Corp. appealed a decision of the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission refusing to bring into force settlement agreements negotiated between the processors and the Ontario Potato Board.
The Commission had previously declined to re-open arbitrated awards, citing concerns about the integrity of the arbitration process amidst ongoing court challenges.
However, the Tribunal found that the multi-year settlement agreements, which were supported by growers and other industry stakeholders, would provide a mutually agreeable and stable marketing environment.
The Tribunal granted the appeals and ordered the Commission to bring the settlement agreements into force.
