Law 3101A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Professional Negligence In English Law, Notifiable Disease, Coroner

• School: Western University
• Department: Law
• Course: Law 3101A/B
• Professor: Robert Solomon

Document Summary

Part 2 - provincial reporting obligations: a. Reporting obligations apply to everyone, including regulated health practitioners, others, social workers, and social service workers: 5. Duty to report applies to all confidential or privileged communication (with the exception of solicitor/client privilege: 6. No action can be brought for reporting as required unless malicious or without reasonable grounds: 7. Failure to report is an offence if committed by licensees and staff providing treatment, care or counselling: 8. Part 3 - reporting sexual impropriety, other misconduct, incompetency, and incapacity: a. Regulated health professions act, schedule 2: health professions procedural code: 1. Reports by facilities: must file report with college if have reasonable grounds to believe a rhp is incompetent, incapacitated or sexually abused a patient, 3. Reports by employers: if terminates or restricts the employment of an rhp for professional misconduct, incompetency, or incapacity - must file report to college within 30 days, also if rhp resigns, 4.