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The Discipline Tribunal issues practice directives which are the Tribunal’s rules. The practice directives provide detailed information about:
- How the Discipline Tribunal operates
- What is expected of anyone participating in a hearing
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General rules of procedure
- Filing documents
- Written confirmation of filing
- Defective filings and defective service
- Urgent filing and directions about filing or service
- Service methods, effective service and proof of service
- Counting time
- Statutory deadlines
- Usual time periods for key procedural steps
- Accessibility measures and accommodations that remove barriers to participation
- Accommodation requests and supporting information
- Confidential handling and implementation of accommodations
- Relationship to hearing management and hearing logistics
- Does not apply to protection orders under HPOA sections 183 to 186
- Confidential material, including confidential versions, public versions, redactions and labels
- Confidentiality orders and related requests
- Access to and disclosure of hearing records
- Public access to records from a discipline proceeding
- Official recordings and transcripts
- Who is a person with an interest
- Requests for confirmation as a confirmed person with an interest
- Participation in the discipline hearing process
- Attendance, notices, hearing records and other information
Intake and commencement
- Filing and formatting initial requests that start a Discipline Tribunal file
- Portal filing and other filing directions for requests
- Organization of requests, searchability and redactions
- Discipline Tribunal’s review for completeness and missing items
- Who may request a citation
- Required contents of the request package, including details on proposals for allegations
- Required records and information
- Director review and decision outcomes
- Fixing filing defects
- Consent-resolution proposals filed with a request for citation
- Filing requirements
- Required contents of the proposal
- Director review and decision
- Resolution management conferences in this process
- Consent resolutions after the Director has issued a citation
- Requests to change the Consent Resolution Deadline
- Filing before the Consent Resolution Deadline
- Director review and resolution management conferences before the deadline
- Resolving a case after the Consent Resolution Deadline through the hearing process
- Factors relevant to a proposed consent resolution
- Requests for approval of a proposed order resolving a complaint involving an allegation of sexual abuse before citation
- Filing and submission requirements
- Further information requests, updates after filing and withdrawal
- Resolution management conferences in this process
- Decision factors and privacy or confidentiality considerations
- Purpose and objectives of mediation
- Mediation principles
- Availability, format and cost
- The Director’s role and the effect of unsuccessful mediation
Case and hearing management
- Case management from citation to the Consent Resolution Deadline
- Case management conferences
- Requests for a case management conference or directions in writing
- Issues addressed, compliance and transition to hearing management
- Initial hearing dates
- Rescheduling before the Consent Resolution Deadline
- Hearing date changes after the Consent Resolution Deadline
- Adjournments during the hearing
- Required contents of requests and relevant factors
- Hearing management after the Consent Resolution Deadline
- Hearing management conferences
- Requests for a hearing management conference or an order in writing
- Pre-hearing applications
- Issues raised during the hearing
Evidence and hearing conduct
- General evidentiary rules in a discipline proceeding
- Exhibits and evidentiary issues
- Witness lists, witness management and remote testimony
- Orders to compel attendance or production
- Expert evidence requirements and management
- Protection orders under HPOA sections 183 to 186
- Statutory framework and mandatory considerations
- Who may request a protection order and when
- Required materials
- Examples of protection orders
- Public access and confidentiality implications
- Identifying and handling potential sensitive records
- Applications for production orders under HPOA sections 188 and 189
- Service, notice, and submissions
- Determination, private review of records and orders
- Managing produced sensitive records
- Hearing format directions from citation to completion of the discipline hearing
- Deciding hearing format
- Remote participation requirements
- Hearing books and electronic exhibits
- Non-standard or physical evidence
- Technical failures, interruptions and backup directions
- Open hearings and public attendance arrangements
- Access orders
- Expected conduct of observers and media representatives
- Support persons and animals
- Recording, broadcasting, live commentary and electronic devices
Outcomes and post-hearing
- Disciplinary orders
- Hearing costs
- Post-hearing written submissions on liability and other issues
- Form of decision and reasons
- Corrections and clarifications under ATA section 53
- Applications for review under HPOA section 194
- Filing, service, deadline, contents, and grounds for review
- Requests for a stay
- Preliminary dismissal and combining applications
- Review record, process, and decision after review
- Publication of requests for a citation and disciplinary orders
- Required publication content for different categories of disciplinary orders
- Publication of a request for a citation
- Related publication steps