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Workshops and conferences

November 20th, 2020

Education Law – Review of the 2019 Case Law

Lawyers Yann Bernard, Catherine Galardo, Jonathan Garneau, Pierre-Olivier Lessard, René Paquette, Geneviève Plante and Paule Veilleux presented a webinar on November 20, in which they reviewed this year’s case law and legislation to an audience of education professionals. The Web conference aimed to raise awareness in terms of common trends and key factors affecting the […]

Workshops and conferences

November 19th, 2020

Langlois Workshop | Preparing for the reform of the law governing personal data protection in Quebec

Last November 19, Langlois partner and lawyer Caroline Deschênes and lawyer Pascal Archambault presented an online workshop to Québec entrepreneurs and managers whose role it is to safeguard personal data, in anticipation of Bill 64 and a major overhaul of the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector. Read more in […]

Workshops and conferences

November 9th, 2020

Langlois Lawyers and Québec International join forces to broach access to Québec’s public procurement contracts with European investors

On November 26, Langlois Lawyers Sébastien Laprise, Jean-Benoît Pouliot and Guillaume François Larouche will join Québec International to present a webinar. The conference will showcase the City of Québec’s business and economic environment, as well as provincial public procurement potential. Ms Michèle Boisvert, Québec’s Delegate General in Paris will deliver the welcome and opening remarks. […]

Publications

November 5th, 2020

Introduction of Bill 59, An Act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime: Major changes expected

On October 27, 2020, Quebec’s Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity, Jean Boulet, introduced Bill 59, An Act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime (“Bill 59”). The main purpose of this bill, which has been awaited by stakeholders in the field for several years, is to modernize the occupational health and safety […]

Workshops and conferences

November 2nd, 2020

Charles Lapointe will take part in a case law review in bankruptcy and insolvency

This conference is only available in French. For further details, click here.

Publications

November 2nd, 2020

Class actions: Supreme Court of Canada upholds the status quo over authorization criteria in Quebec

On October 30, the Supreme Court of Canada released its long-awaited decision in Desjardins Financial Services Firm Inc. v. Asselin1 (the “Asselin decision”). Ever since leave to appeal was granted in June 2019,2 practitioners and litigants have been kept in suspense, anticipating a potential amendment to the analytical framework of the criteria for authorization of a class […]