{"id":4001,"date":"2023-01-03T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/deals-cases\/ontario-superior-court-of-justice-dismisses-allegations-of-misfeasance-of-public-office-and-defamation-against-hospital-management\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:53:29","slug":"ontario-superior-court-of-justice-dismisses-allegations-of-misfeasance-of-public-office-and-defamation-against-hospital-management","status":"publish","type":"deals-cases","link":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/deals-cases\/ontario-superior-court-of-justice-dismisses-allegations-of-misfeasance-of-public-office-and-defamation-against-hospital-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismisses allegations of misfeasance of public office and defamation against hospital management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sherwani v. Fargher, 2023 ONSC 20<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a January 3, 2023 decision, Justice Robert Centa of the Ontario Superior Court dismissed an action against the West Parry Sound Health Centre (the \u201cHospital\u201d), its Chief Executive Officer and its Chief of Staff (the \u201cDefendants\u201d) for allegations of misfeasance of public office and defamation (against the Chief of Staff).<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began when the Plaintiff, a physician who previously held Hospital privileges, alleged that its Chief of Staff began a \u201cwar of attrition\u201d against him in 2010 leading to two clinical reviews of the Plaintiff\u2019s practice by the Hospital, which ultimately resulted in the Hospital\u2019s Medical Advisory Committee recommending that his privileges be revoked. The Plaintiff claimed that he suffered damages to his reputation and a loss of income of approximately $3.4 million, arising from the bad faith exercise of the statutory public power by the Defendants as well as the Chief of Staff\u2019s defamatory actions.<\/p>\n<p>The Court ruled in favour of the Defendants, stating that they treated the Plaintiff fairly and in good faith and that their actions were motivated by their concern for patient care. The action was dismissed in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Spiegel (Health) and Tina Kaye of Miller Thomson represented the CEO and West Parry Sound Health Centre in the dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"template":"","class_list":["post-4001","deals-cases","type-deals-cases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismisses allegations of misfeasance of public office and defamation against hospital management | Miller Thomson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/deals-cases\/ontario-superior-court-of-justice-dismisses-allegations-of-misfeasance-of-public-office-and-defamation-against-hospital-management\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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