Toronto Professional Regulation Lawyer Toronto Administrative Tribunal Lawyer
35 Years of Litigation Experience Matters
Toronto lawyer Justin James Robinson is experienced in managing and defending individuals and corporations who are in dispute with a regulatory authority that governs their industry or occupation. When you need a Toronto Professional Regulation lawyer or an Administrative Tribunal lawyer, Justin James Robinson will advocate for you and your legal rights, based on his 35 years of experience of practicing law.
Whether you are a healthcare professional, belong to other professions (engineering, accounting, teaching, and so on), a builder, employer, realtor, broker, financial advisor, or a professional driver, a disciplinary or provincial offence may have the effect of either substantially penalizing you or restricting you from practising your chosen profession or field of work. You will need the expertise and experience of a Professional Regulation lawyer like Justin James Robinson to advocate on your behalf in disciplinary or administrative tribunals.
Professional Regulation lawyer has represented dozens in Administrative Tribunals
Over the course of his career, Toronto Professional Regulation lawyer and Toronto Administrative Tribunal lawyer Justin James Robinson has represented physicians, dentists, professional drivers, lawyers, financial advisors, members of the securities industry, stockbrokers, realtors, builders, engineers, accountants, realty-brokers, life insurance agents, mortgage brokers, and many other individuals faced with the potential for disciplinary and provincial offences prosecutions. He has represented physicians, lawyers, employers, professional fishermen, and others in regulatory and disciplinary tribunals and Courts, obtaining highly successful results.
Justin James Robinson’s involvement in professional indemnity defence work and in Commercial Litigation provides a great deal of depth to his experience in matters involving individuals and corporations under the close attention of a regulatory authority, or who are concerned that they may require advice concerning their business operations.
Strategy. Wisdom. Negotiating power.
Serious experience to solve your legal problems.
Professional Regulation lawyer fees may be covered by insurance
In the unfortunate event that your regulatory body has notified you that you, or your organization, is the subject of a serious complaint, you may be fortunate enough to have the benefit of an insurance policy to appoint a Toronto Professional Regulation lawyer to represent you.
Usually, the insurance policy in situations involving disciplinary matters permits the insured professional to select from a group of pre-approved Professional Regulation lawyers. On the other hand, you may not be required to accept the Professional Regulation lawyer selected by your insurer to represent you.
Not all insurers are prepared to fund your defence and may rely on exclusions in the policy to provide you with less effective legal representation. If you are not confident in the lawyer selected for you by your insurer, Professional Regulation lawyer Justin James Robinson is available to provide a second opinion, and if you wish, to represent you. When there is so much riding on your ability to continue working in your chosen profession to earn a living, it makes sense to think carefully about who you hire as a Professional Regulation lawyer.
If you do not have the benefit of insurance coverage to respond to cover the fees of hiring a Toronto Professional Regulation lawyer, may lead to the extraordinary step of borrowing money to pay for your legal defence. The decision to ignore the complaint or problem, or to forego a lawyer altogether, may not be in your own best interest.
Generally, disciplinary and Administrative Tribunals hold all parties to the same standard as a lawyer, so self-represented individuals will be expected to have the same legal knowledge as a Professional Regulation lawyer.
A bit of good news: the fees incurred to retain a Professional Regulation lawyer are generally tax deductible.
How Administrative Tribunals are different than Court
Administrative Tribunals are not bound by the rules of evidence that would be applied and operate to afford fairness to a person being disciplined, if the matter were proceeding in a Court. For that reason, it is not generally desirable to attempt to defend yourself.
We can subpoena relevant witnesses who may provide testimony that may be determinative of the matter, in your favour.
Regulatory proceedings may result in suspension or the revocation of a licence to participate in a chosen occupation and may unfortunately have a negative impact on a professional’s reputation, ability to find alternative employment, or to attract clients or customers. The professional body may potentially flag its website to notify members of the public of a finding against a professional.
Appealing an Administrative Tribunal’s decision
If an Administrative Tribunal or Provincial Court has made an adverse finding against you (that you are guilty of the complaint and are deserving of discipline), there is always a right of appeal depending upon whether the Administrative Tribunal or provincial court exercised its functions lawfully.
To that end, we recommend that you attend any hearing with your own court reporter, in the event that the Administrative Tribunal does not supply a court reporter to record the testimony and submissions.
Generally, there is a right of appeal to the Divisional Court, of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, to consider whether the tribunal afforded the required rights during the hearing and in making its decision.
Reapplying for a professional/occupational license, post-revocation
Sometimes, depending upon a change of circumstances, a tribunal will accept an application to reinstate a professional or occupational licence.
If your licence to practice a profession or occupation was at a previous stage in your life revoked by an Administrative Tribunal, Toronto Professional Regulation lawyer Justin James Robinson is prepared to provide opinions as to your prospects of successfully making an application for the licence to be reissued.