Paule Veilleux

Right of association of medical specialists 
Paule was a member of the team of lawyers who submitted a motion for a declaratory judgment concerning medical specialists’ right of association in Québec. She also represented the association of mid-level managers in the Quebec health and social services network in connection with a motion for a declaratory judgment recognizing the managers’ right of association and annulling the regulation modifying their conditions of employment.  

Independence and impartiality
She made representations to the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal on behalf of the Commission d’appel en matière de lésions professionnelles concerning the independence and impartiality of the CALP commissioners, better known as the Montambault case. She also represented the intervenor, the Association des commissaires de la Commission des relations du travail, on issues pertaining to judicial independence in the matter of AJACLP v. Procureur général du Québec.

Freedom of religion
At the Commission des relations de travail (TAT), she also obtained a declaration of inoperability and non-invocability for section 7 of the Organization and Management of Institutions Regulation and sections 3 and 4 of the bylaw regarding the provision of pastoral services at Hôpital Laval, which bases the right to employment on the religious nature of the institution.

Handicap
On the basis of her representations, the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal recognized that visual acuity is a justifiable professional requirement for employment as an industrial electrician.  

Freedom of expression
Together with a colleague, she represented major Québec media and succeeded in having Section 487.2 of the Criminal Code declared null, void, and inoperable by the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal. 

Mediator confidentiality
For the past 10 years, she has represented the mediators at the Commission des lésions professionnelles before all judicial bodies in cases where mediator confidentiality has been attacked by the parties in the case or by third persons.

Disqualification for public office
On behalf of a school board, Paule obtained a declaration that parents were not qualified to sit on an advisory board on services for handicapped pupils and pupils with learning and adjustment difficulties.

Challenge to guilty verdict
She also acted for MENVIQ in the dismissal of a senior public servant in which over 25 legal proceedings were brought by the claimant to Commission de l’accès à l’information, Commission de la fonction publique, the Superior Court, and the Court of Appeal. This case mainly concerned a challenge, as part of the dismissal complaint, to the guilty verdict by a senior government official in the wake of the City of Toronto decision.

Coroner’s inquest
She acted as co-counsel in the coroner’s inquest into the events leading to the multiple car accident on Highway 20. She represented engineers at the Ministère des Transports and also pled before the disciplinary committee regarding these events. 

Penal offenses
She represents a major forest-products company in a matter involving the Sustainable Forest Development Act.