Human Rights Challenges And Internationally Educated Professionals: Mihaly v. APEGA

In Mihaly v. The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, 2014 AHRC 1, an Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, recently held that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) discriminated against Ladislav Mihaly, an internationally educated engineer (“IEE”), by imposing certain requirements before it would register him to practice as a professional engineer in Alberta.  The Tribunal’s decision is a matter of considerable importance for all regulators, many of which are receiving an increasing number of licensing applications from graduates of foreign institutions.  James T. Casey, QC, of Field Law represented APEGA before the Tribunal.