Regulators and Licensing Bodies

The lawyers at GlickLaw have significant experience representing and advising regulators. We are award-winning litigators and leaders in the areas of professional and industry regulation. We routinely assist and act for regulators in a wide range of mandates, including:

• Acting as prosecution counsel in discipline, incompetence, and fitness to practise hearings;
• Providing advice to screening committees on complaints and investigations;
• Acting as prosecution counsel in Provincial Offence Act prosecutions against unauthorized practitioners;
• Seeking injunctive relief and compliance orders against unauthorized practitioners in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice;
• Representing regulators in appeals and judicial reviews before the courts;
• Representing regulators in appeals of orders before the Licence Appeal Tribunal;
• Acting as independent legal counsel to Discipline Committees;
• Acting as counsel for regulators in registration hearings and reinstatement hearings;
• Training members of tribunals and statutory committees;
• Drafting rules, policies, and procedures;
• Providing advice on any issue a regulator may face, including complaints, discipline, registration, privacy, and human rights.

Our past and present representative work includes acting for the:

• Ontario College of Pharmacists
• Ontario College of Teachers
• Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
• College of Chiropodists of Ontario
• Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority
• College of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario
• College of Dental Technologists of Ontario
• Ontario College of Trades
• Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council
• College of Kinesiologists of Ontario
• College of Denturists of Ontario
• Law Society of Ontario
• Liquor Control Board of Ontario
• Metrolinx