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Publications

January 19th, 2023

Municipalities’ pre-emptive rights

Did you know that the city or municipality in which your property is located could have what the law calls a “pre-emptive right” on your immovable property, i.e. a right to purchase it in priority to any other person? The adoption on June 9, 2022 of the Act to amend various legislative provisions mainly with […]

Publications

January 11th, 2023

The Court of Appeal rules: employers cannot deduct disability insurance benefits from pay in lieu of notice

On September 1, 2022, the Quebec Court of Appeal handed down an important decision in Caisse populaire Desjardins de Saint-Raymond–Sainte-Catherine c. Girard.1 In a unanimous decision, the Court ruled that disability benefits received by an employee and paid by an insurer cannot be deducted from pay in lieu of notice, regardless of whether the employer pays […]

Workshops and conferences

December 1st, 2022

Education Law – Review of the 2021 Case Law

On April 26, the Education Law team at Langlois Lawyers would like to invite you to its annual case law review for the year 2021. During this seminar, members of our team will present the most significant decisions rendered in the education sector over the past year. The decisions discussed will cover various topics of […]

Workshops and conferences

November 3rd, 2022

Langlois to present at upcoming industry-leading conferences

Langlois guest-speakers will take part in industry events presented by Open Forum Ouvert Communications, a leading Québec conference organizer tailoring to the business, finance and legal sectors. November 7: Strategic Day – Challenges in the construction industry Jean Patrick Dallaire and Marie-Douce Huard will present a session exploring the various methods of carrying our infrastructure […]

Publications

October 31st, 2022

Modernization of the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector: What employers need to know

Employers are subject to a number of new obligations as a result of the modernization of the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (the “Act”), the new provisions of which will come into force over a three-year period (from September 2022 to September 2024). Below are some of the amendments […]

Publications

October 26th, 2022

BIM: a tool for substantiating a claim

This article first appeared in French on the Corporation des entrepreneurs généraux du Québec website and was written in collaboration with Geoffroy Bertrand, Eng., MBA, PMP, of FTI Consulting. The use of Building Information Modelling, commonly known as BIM, is becoming increasingly widespread in both public and private construction projects. BIM is traditionally seen as […]