Mark Faassen
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.Partner at Gowling WLG
- Called to the bar
- 2012
- Languages
- English
Health Law
Administrative & Regulatory LawHealth LawAdministrative & Regulatory LawAbout Mark Faassen
When a health professional is sued, faces a complaint to a regulator, or has to answer before a tribunal, they can turn to Mark Faassen. Faassen is a partner at Gowling WLG in Ottawa, working in the firm's Advocacy group, with a practice built on medical defence and health law. That covers court actions, regulatory files and administrative proceedings alike, plus coroner's inquests, disputes over hospital privileges, and consent and capacity questions.
Faassen teaches, too. At uOttawa's Common Law Section, the partner is a part-time professor running an upper-year seminar that explores rights, responsibilities and regulation in the health field. Recent writing has asked how regulators of health professions can tackle racism in care, and how Canada's criminal law responded to the politicization of Covid-19 public health measures and its impact on health workers. On a volunteer basis, Faassen also brings legal and privacy insight to the research ethics board of the Ottawa Health Science Network.
The road into law ran through film. Before joining Gowling WLG, Faassen cleared rights and researched visuals for documentaries at a TV production house. Law school at the University of Ottawa ended with a cum laude JD, and the Ontario call followed in 2012. Years into practice, Faassen returned to McGill for an LLM, finished in 2023, and helped edit the McGill Journal of Law and Health's online content as Junior Online Editor while studying there.
Practice areas
Professional regulation and tribunals
Appears for clients before administrative tribunals, among them the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, and the Discipline, Quality Assurance and Fitness to Practice Committees of the CPSO.
Medical defence litigation
Defends health professionals in civil litigation, with experience at several levels of the Ontario courts.
Inquests, hospital privileges, consent and capacity
Acts for clients at coroner's inquests, and on questions of hospital privileges, consent and capacity.
Education & credentials
- Master of Laws (LLM), McGill University (2023)
- JD (cum laude), University of Ottawa (2011)
- Called to the Ontario bar (2012)
- MA, Political Science, McGill University (2005)
- BA Hons, Radio & Television Arts, Ryerson University (2002)
Publications & speaking
- The Role of Health Professional Regulation in Addressing Racism in Health Care, McGill Journal of Law and Health Blog (2023)
- The Impact on Health Workers of the Politicization of Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Canada's Criminal Law Response, McGill Journal of Law and Health Blog (2022)
- Medical Legal Actions & Mock Trial (Canadian Association of Radiologists), Canadian Association of Radiologists (2014)
- Medical Legal Actions & Mock Trial (Queen's University, School of Medicine), Queen's University, School of Medicine (2012)
- Annual Report on Applications for Leave to Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada: the 2010-2011 Term (with Henry S. Brown, Q.C.), Supreme Court Law Review, 56:2 (2011)
- A Fine Balance: the Regulation of Canadian Religious Broadcasting, Queen's Law Journal, 37:1 (2011)
Memberships & affiliations
- Ottawa Health Science Network Research Ethics Board: Volunteers as a board member for law and privacy.
- University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Common Law Section: Part-time professor teaching an upper-level health law seminar.
- The Advocates' Society: Member.
- Ontario Bar Association: Member.
- County of Carleton Law Association: Member.
- Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers Ontario: Member.
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