What is procedural fairness for a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Broers v. Real Estate Council of Alberta, 2010 ABQB 497 (CanLII):
While the content of procedural fairness is to be determined in the specific context of each individual case, it has been consistently held that individuals facing a possible loss of their livelihood through a disciplinary sanction are entitled to a very high degree of procedural fairness: Kane v. University of British Columbia, 1980 CanLII 10 (SCC), [1980] 1 S.C.R. 1105 at p. 1113.
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