Roundtable: Fitness to Practise + Incapacity: Principles + Practicalities

Join Field Law’s Professional Regulatory Group and your professional regulatory colleagues for our summer roundtable.

Professional regulatory bodies in Alberta are tasked with ensuring that their members are fit to practise or have the capacity. In some cases, it can be difficult to assess and make decisions about these things. Additionally, the limits of a regulator’s powers when it comes to assessing fitness to practise and incapacity are not always clear. When deciding these issues, the regulator must obviously consider its mandate to protect the public interest. However, questions around fitness to practise and incapacity also often trigger a regulator’s human rights obligations. How does the regulator balance these two important and sometimes competing obligations?

Join your professional regulatory colleagues to discuss challenges related to fitness to practise and incapacity, including:

• What’s the difference between fitness to practise and incapacity and what do the different statutes have to say about fitness to practise and/or incapacity?
• How does fitness to practise and/or incapacity fit into a regulator’s processes? Are concerns handled as part of the registration process, the discipline process, or some other process?  
• How can a regulator balance fitness to practise and incapacity concerns with the regulator’s human rights obligations?
• How can experts assist regulators with issues involving fitness to practise and incapacity?

Who should attend? This roundtable is designed for staff of professional regulatory organizations of all sizes.