The Court dismissed a petition for judicial review of a decision of the Investigation Committee of the Respondent Association. The Petitioner had complained about a fellow member of the Respondent Association and the Investigation Committee decided not to refer the complaint to the Discipline Committee of the Respondent Association. The Petitioner lacked standing to bring a petition for judicial review of this decision of the Investigation Committee.

28. October 2008 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Association of Professional Engineers – Disciplinary proceedings – Investigations – Judicial review application – Parties – Standing in judicial review – Procedural requirements and fairness Emerman v. Assn. of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, [2008] B.C.J. No. 1663, British Columbia Supreme Court, September 2, 2008, ...

An engineer appealed from a decision of the Council of the Respondent Association that had found him guilty of conduct that constituted unskilled practice or unprofessional conduct. The Court confirmed one finding of unprofessional conduct, but on a second found that the Council had incorrectly applied the reasonableness standard of review to evidence regarding the appropriate Yukon standard of practice.

22. August 2006 0
Administrative law – Engineers – Disciplinary proceedings – Professional misconduct – Penalties and suspensions – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Association of Professional Engineers – Judicial review – Evidence – Standard of review – Reasonableness simpliciter Ellwood v. Assn. of Professional Engineers of Yukon, [2006] Y.J. No. 49, Yukon Territory Supreme Court, June 19, 2006, Veale J. ...

A professional engineer (Visser) was successful in obtaining an Order prohibiting the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (the “Association”) from proceeding with a second inquiry in relation to a complaint made about Visser. The court held that permitting the Association to re-characterize the same conduct and then proceed with a second inquiry would represent an abuse of process.

27. December 2005 0
Administrative law – Engineers – Disciplinary proceedings – Professional misconduct – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Association of Professional Engineers – Estoppel and res judicata – Judicial review – Abuse of process Visser v. Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, [2005] B.C.J. No. 2108, British Columbia Supreme Court, October 5, 2005, Baker J. On October ...

The appeal of a decision of the discipline body of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia was dismissed by the Supreme Court and on the subsequent appeal the Court held that the Supreme Court did not err in assessing the degree of proof required or in finding that any breaches of natural justice or procedural fairness were waived by the Appellant

28. December 2004 0
Administrative law – Engineers – Disciplinary proceedings – Professional misconduct – Penalties and suspensions – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Association of Professional Engineers – Judicial review – Procedural requirements and fairness – Bias – Natural justice Beaini v. Assn. of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, [2004] N.S.J. No. 383, Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, October 13, ...