Justine Vinette

• Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Extraordinary Remedies
• Real Estate Law
• Professional Law
• Personal Information and Data Protection
• Civil and Commercial Litigation
• Product Liability and Consumer Protection
• Professional Liability

• Financial Institutions and Services
• Manufacturing

Professional liability and environment

• Successfully represented an environmental consultant and his employer before the Superior Court of Québec in a case involving a $3 million claim by a plaintiff who alleged that the defendants committed various errors in carrying out an environmental study engagement. The Court detailed in particular the state of the law on the civil liability of a professional against a third person, the nature of the obligations assumed by environmental consultants and the concept of an impairment loss related to an alleged contamination.

Extraordinary remedies

• Successfully represented a banking institution in various extraordinary remedies before the Superior Court of Québec, such as seizures before judgment, and Anton Piller, Mareva and Norwich orders.
• Successfully represented a client that is a legal person and a mandatary of the State before the Superior Court of Québec in connection with an application for an interlocutory injunction to stay the submission of tenders in connection with a call for tenders launched in the Québec health network.

• Young Bar of Montréal, Member, since 2019
• The Advocates’ Society, Member, since 2019

• Author: "Professionals are directly liable for disclosures of personal patient information, even if they address the situation in good faith", September 26, 2024.

• Co-speaker: Votre vie privée est importante pour nous – de la théorie à la pratique [Your privacy is important to us – from theory to practice], a workshop on the implications of Bill 25 for the practice of bailiffs responsible for the administration of bailiff's offices and for bailiffs in the exercise of their profession, in collaboration with the Chambre des huissiers de justice du Québec, November 11, 2023.
• Co-speaker: Le régime des autorisations environnementales [The Environmental Permitting Regime], a workshop on the environmental authorization regime, i.e., obtaining an authorization, and modifying, suspending or revoking it, at the initiative of the proponent or the MELCC, as well as the triggers for additional authorizations under the Regulation respecting the regulatory scheme applying to activities on the basis of their environmental impact, in collaboration with the Conseil Patronal de l'Environnement du Québec (CPEQ), webinar, December 15, 2022.

LL.B., Université de Sherbrooke, 2018

Certificate in European Private Law, University of Salzburg (Austria), 2017