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EDMONTON — A judge has reversed an Alberta human rights ruling that found a regulator discriminated against a foreign-trained man who wanted to work as an engineer.

Ladislav Mihaly, from the former Czechoslovakia, had been seeking since 1999 to register with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.

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The association required Mihaly to write exams to confirm his credentials, but after failing two tests and refusing to take others he filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission in 2008.

In 2014, a human rights tribunal ruled the tests were discriminatory and ordered the association to reconsider Mihaly’s application and pay him $10,000 in damages.

The tribunal also required the association to form a committee to review any of his perceived academic deficiencies, to consider exempting him from exams and to provide him with a mentor to guide him into the engineering profession.