The petitioner pharmacy, in a judicial review petition for an interlocutory injunction, sought two orders in the nature of certiorari quashing the decision of the Ministry of Health: (i) that the petitioner owes $1,392,405.85 to the Province of B.C. and (ii) to refuse to enrol the pharmacy in the PharmaCare program pursuant to the Pharmaceutical Services Act.

The Alberta Veterinary Medical Association received two complaints from former employees about the appellant veterinarian which suggested that the veterinarian was incapacitated.

The Minister's decision to deny the appellant's application to become a fully licensed psychologist was upheld as reasonable because the appellant had not provided sufficient paperwork with her application for licensure to demonstrate she had met supervision criteria which was clearly required.

The Information and Privacy Commissioner appealed the respondent’s determination that certain documents should not be released pursuant to a request for access to information on the basis the documents were privileged.

Appeal from penalty decision of Ontario College of Physiotherapists on basis registrant was denied procedural fairness.

A Committee's decision finding a psychologist/registrant guilty of professional misconduct for failing to use the term "non practising" in his advertising was upheld by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.

Dentist sought judicial review of College's actions in negotiating, entering into, and enforcing a settlement agreement with him as he was suffering from bipolar disorder at the time. In the alternative, he sought an order converting the petition to a Supreme Court action. No relief was available in the circumstances under the Judicial Review Procedure Act, but an order converting the petition to an action was granted.

The Court denied a vexatious litigant (pharmacist) leave to appeal a decision that denied his reinstatement application for his pharmacy license on the basis that it was an abuse of process and there were no reasonable grounds for it.

One important development in health law in 2013 is that the Supreme Court has now decided that s. 218 of the Criminal Code, the offence of abandoning a child, requires an element of subjective fault.