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    Public and Administrative Law

    Our lawyers have built a solid reputation, deep experience, and proven expertise in the complex and evolving legislative and regulatory landscape of public and administrative law.

    We focus on providing our clients with advisory services and representation before administrative tribunals and courts of law. Whether preventing litigation, defusing a crisis or defending your interests, we provide effective and strategically sound solutions to help achieve your goals.

    Our public and administrative law mandates cover a very broad spectrum of our expertise, notably the following:

    • Aboriginal law
    • Constitutional and public law
    • Education law
    • Energy law
    • Environmental law
    • Fundamental rights and freedoms
    • Health and social services law
    • Internal, governmental, and regulatory inquiries
    • Municipal law
    • Professional and disciplinary law
    • Relations with government departments and public and parapublic bodies

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    Publications
    September 12th, 2024

    Rejection of a bid submitted in response to a public tender: The Court of Appeal of Québec modifies the analytical framework for classifying major irregularities
    On August 13, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Québec issued an important decision in Municipalité de Mansfield-et-Pontefract v. Location Martin-Lalonde inc. concerning the analysis of bid compliance in the context of a public tender and, in particular, the principles applicable to what constitutes a major irregularity requiring that a bid be rejected.
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    Publications
    April 5th, 2024

    Needed guidance from the Court of Appeal on the question of the quasi-constitutional protection of parental status in Québec
    Introduction In this matter, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (the “Union”), which represents bus drivers and related services employees employed by the Réseau de transport de Longueuil (the “Employer”), alleged, through a group grievance, that a provision of the collective agreement concerning the granting of attendance credits discriminated against employees who had taken maternity […]
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    November 30th, 2023

    The SCC issues a landmark ruling on the territorial jurisdiction of Québec’s administrative tribunals
    The recent ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada in Sharp v. Autorité des marchés financiers1 will have far reaching implications in the fields of administrative law, international private law, and securities law in Québec. Québec’s securities regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (“AMF”), brought proceedings before Québec’s Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal (“FMAT”) against four British […]
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    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 […]
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