Abouna v. Foothills Provincial General Hospital Board

• Jurisdiction: Alberta
• Court: Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
• Judge: MacDonald, J.
• Citation: (1977), 4 A.R. 573 (TD)
• Date: 06 June 1977

Abouna v. Foothills Hospital (1977), 4 A.R. 573 (TD)

MLB headnote and full text

Abouna v. Foothills Provincial General Hospital Board

Indexed As: Abouna v. Foothills Provincial General Hospital Board

Alberta Supreme Court

Trial Division

Judicial District of Calgary

MacDonald, J.

June 6, 1977.

Summary:

This headnote contains no summary.

Administrative Law - Topic 261

The hearing - Right to a hearing - The Alberta Supreme Court, Trial Division, reviewed the authorities with respect to the right of an office holder to a hearing before he is disciplined or dismissed - See paragraphs 39 to 49.

Administrative Law - Topic 1212

Classification of power or function - Functions classified as quasi judicial - Discharge of a government employee or staff person - The Alberta Supreme Court, Trial Division, held that the revocation of a medical doctor's privileges by a public hospital constituted a quasi judicial act.

Hospitals - Topic 344

Operation of hospitals - Doctors - Restriction or revocation of a doctor's hospital privileges - A doctor's privileges were revoked by a hospital without notice or without giving the doctor an opportunity to be heard - The Alberta Supreme Court, Trial Division, held that both the hospital's bylaws and the rules of natural justice required the hospital to give the doctor notice of any charges and an opportunity to answer the charges before the revocation of the doctor's privileges - The Trial Division declared invalid the purported revocation of the doctor's privileges - The Trial Division awarded the doctor $100,000.00 damages for wrongful dismissal.

Words and Phrases

Quasi judicial - The Alberta Supreme Court, Trial Division, discussed the meaning of the words "quasi judicial" in administrative law - See paragraph 38.

Cases Noticed:

A.G. of Ontario v. National Trust Company, [1931] O.R. 122, folld. [para. 29].

R. v. Cambridge University (1723), 1 Str. 557, folld. [para. 41].

Kauda v. Government of the Federation of Malaya, [1962] A.C. 322, folld. [para. 41].

Ridge v. Baldwin, [1963] 2 All E.R. 66, folld. [para. 42].

Fisher v. Keane (1878), 11 Ch.D. 353, folld. [para. 43].

Re Rosenfeld v. College of Physicians and Surgeons (1970), 11 D.L.R.(3d) 148, folld. [para. 47].

Barik v. Broadview Union Hospital Board (1974), 41 D.L.R.(3d) 757, folld. [para. 48].

Hospital Sainte Jeanne D'Arc v. Garneau, [1961] S.C.R. 426, folld. [para. 49].

M. v. Hospital Board of Cereal, [1946] 3 W.W.R. 699, dist. [para. 50].

Marian v. Board of Governors of University Hospital (1970), 74 W.W.R. 55, dist. [para. 50].

Chakravorty v. A.G. for Alberta et al., [1972] 4 W.W.R. 437, dist. [para. 50].

Confederation Broadcasting (Ottawa) Ltd. v. Canadian Radio-Television Commission, [1971] S.C.R. 906, refd to. [para. 53].

McGillivray v. Kimber, 52 S.C.R. 146, folld. [para. 74].

Dunk v. George Waller & Sons Ltd., [1970] 2 Q.B. 163, folld. [para. 79].

Vancouver Real Estate Board v. Moscap Realty Ltd. (1961), 28 D.L.R.(2d) 85, folld. [para. 80].

R. v. Halifax-Dartmouth Real Estate Board (1964), 44 D.L.R.(2d) 248, folld. [para. 81].

Sowdon v. Mills (1861), 30 L.J.Q.B. 175, folld. [para. 82].

Armstrong v. Tyndall Quarry (1910), 16 W.L.R. 111, folld. [para. 82].

Chadburn v. Sinclair (1966), 57 W.W.R. 477, folld. [para. 82].

Statutes Noticed:

Interpretation Act, R.S.A. 1970, c. 189, sect. 11 [para. 28].

Authors and Works Noticed:

Garner's Administrative Law (4th Ed.), pp. 112 [para. 39]; 318, 327 [para. 10].

Reid on Administrative Law and Practice, pp. 251, 255 [para. 11].

deSmith, S.A., Judicial Review of Administrative Action (3rd Ed.), p. 122 [para. 13].

Black's Law Dictionary [para. 20].

McGregor on Damages (13 Ed.), pp. 594, 603 [para. 78].

Counsel:

R.T.G. McBain, Q.C., for the plaintiff;

J.R. Smith, Q.C., for the defendant.

The judgment of MacDONALD, J., of the Alberta Supreme Court, Trial Division was delivered at Calgary, Alberta on June 6, 1977.