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January 17th, 2018

Free Internet-Service Contracts Caught up by Consumer Protection Legislation in Quebec

This Fall, the Superior Court of Quebec rendered a decision against Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo! Canada Co. (“Yahoo!”) that exposes companies that offer free services to the application of consumer protection legislation, including the mandatory provisions of the Quebec Consumer Protection Act (“CPA”). In so doing, the Court declared inapplicable the choice of forum clauses […]

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January 10th, 2018

Recent Case Law Development: Property Tax Assessment of the Structures in a Wireless Telecommunications System

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2017 issue of the Canadian Property Tax Association newsletter. On August 1, 2017, the Court of Québec, sitting in appeal of a decision of the Tribunal administratif du Québec (the “TAQ”)1, rendered an important decision concerning the property tax assessment of the components of a wireless telephony system2. […]

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January 8th, 2018

Quebec Real Estate Transfer Duties: Further Developments

In the 2016-2017 Budget (the “Budget”), Quebec’s Finance Minister Carlos Leitão announced several changes to Quebec’s regime of transfer duties payable upon certain transfers of real estate pursuant to the Act respecting duties on transfers of immovables (the “Act”). These changes were ratified by legislation on February 8, 2017 and are applicable to all transfers […]

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December 20th, 2017

Illegal Practice of Law ‒ Nullity of an Agreement for Services Whose Object and Cause Are Contrary to the Act Respecting the Barreau du Québec

On July 13, 2017 Justice Chantal Gosselin of the Court of Québec rendered an important decision in a matter involving the illegal practice of the profession of advocate. Facts Mtre Camirand, a lawyer (“Camirand”), had a business relationship with a joint-stock company named Québec Ticket Inc. (“Québec Ticket”) that specialized in contesting traffic tickets. Pursuant […]

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December 15th, 2017

Access to the amount of legal fees paid by a public body: the Court of Appeal rules

This article first appeared in the October 2017 edition of Proforma, a publication of the Quebec City Young Bar Association. Can the professional secrecy privilege be invoked to defeat an access-to-information request seeking to learn the amount of legal fees billed to a public body? That was the issue ruled on by the Quebec Court […]

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December 13th, 2017

Cannabis Producers: Major Changes Pending to Licences and Permits Issued by Health Canada

In November 2017, Health Canada published a consultation paper entitled Proposed Approach to the Regulation of Cannabis. This initiative is pursuant to the federal government’s intention to have its draft bill legalizing recreational marijuana adopted by July 2018. In order to meet that timetable, Health Canada must publish final regulations in the Canada Gazette as […]