Lindsay’s clients describe her as approachable, organized, practical and level headed.
Lindsay provides practical advice to her clients. She assists a wide range of health professionals with respect to regulatory matters. This includes defending registrants involved in College complaints, Health Professional Review Board matters and MSP billing audits.
Lindsay is also a workplace investigator, which is a natural extension of her administrative law practice. She investigates specific issues and concerns, and she also reviews organizations to proactively identify potential concerns and the root causes of same within a workplace.
For more information about Lindsay’s expertise please review the Expertise tab.
You can learn more about Lindsay’s critical injury expertise here.
Lindsay was born and raised in Powell River, B.C. on the Sunshine Coast. She now lives in Vancouver with her husband and two children.
Lindsay has been practicing with Harper Grey for over a decade. Her practice focuses on health administrative law, workplace investigations and personal injury (for the plaintiff). Her extensive administrative law practice involves reviewing investigative reports of regulatory bodies and provides her with experience and knowledge with respect to identifying flawed investigations. It was a natural extension of her practice to seek additional training and become a workplace investigator.
Health Law
Lindsay represents predominately health care professionals including physicians, naturopathic doctors, physiotherapists, speech and hearing professionals, chiropractors, dentists, and psychologists.
She represents clients in a wide range of issues, including matters before a registrant’s College, hospital privileging, and billing audits before the Medical Services Commission of B.C. Her practice also focuses on representing professionals with respect to registration and licensure issues, prescribing practices, privacy and confidentiality matters, ethical breaches, informed consent, sexual misconduct, disruptive behavior, quality of care concerns, and other advice matters.
Lindsay also represents health care professionals before the Health Professions Review Board, which focuses on the (i) adequacy of a regulatory body’s investigation and (ii) reasonableness of the regulatory body’s disposition.
Workplace Investigations
Lindsay is known for her impartial, fact-based approach, and timely conclusions in completing reports. The general areas of investigation include complaints of bullying and harassment (including sexual harassment), discrimination, inappropriate or unprofessional behaviour, statutory violations, employee misconduct/violation of company policies, and other forms of misconduct.
In addition to providing reports on workplace investigations, she also reviews organizations in order to identify potential legal and practical concerns proactively before a formal complaint has been launched.
Critical Injury
- Representing clients in personal injury actions stemming from motor vehicle collisions
- Representing clients with critically severe injuries including brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and chronic pain injuries with a psychological element
- Representing clients in wrongful death actions
You can learn more about Lindsay’s critical injury expertise here.
Professional Regulation
- Representing professionals in regulatory matters including:
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- Billing audits before the Medical Services Commission of British Columbia
- Prescribing practices
- Complaints
- Registration and licensing issues
- Substance abuse/diverting
- Privacy/confidentiality matters (including Freedom of Information queries)
- Ethical breaches
- Certification under the Mental Health Act
- Informed Consent
- Sexual misconduct
- Quality of care concerns
- General advice matters
- Mandatory reporting
- Alleged incompetence, and
- A broad range of issues before the Health Professions Review Board
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Education
- AWI Training Institute (AWI-CH), Association of Workplace Investigators Certificate, 2020
- University of Edinburgh, LL.B. (With Distinction), 2007
- Simon Fraser University, B.A., 2003
Bar Admission
- British Columbia, 2010
Leadership
- Volunteer Adviser, Life In Law
- Contributing Author, LexisNexis® Harper Grey Administrative Law Netletter™
- Contributing Author, Harper Grey Canadian Administrative Law Blog
- Contributing Author, Harper Grey Administrative Law Observer Newsletter
- Contributing Author, Administrative Justice: A Practitioner’s Guide, 2016, Published by LexisNexis® Canada
- Volunteer supervising lawyer for the Law Students’ Legal Advice Program Clinic at Britannia Community Centre
Membership
- Member, CPHR BC & Yukon (formerly HRMA)
- Member, Association of Workplace Investigators
- Member, Vancouver Bar Association
- Member, Trial Lawyer Association of BC
- Member, The Law Society of British Columbia
- Member, Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch Subsections:
- Health Law
- Administrative Law
- Civil Litigation Law
- Workplace Investigations
- Past Member, Downtown Vancouver Toastmasters Club
