Justine Brien

• Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Financial Institutions and Financial Services Law
• Internal and Regulatory Investigations, Compliance and White Collar Defence
• Product Liability and Consumer Protection
• Extraordinary Remedies
• Class Actions
• Civil and Commercial Litigation
• Securities Litigation

• Financial Institutions and Services
• Manufacturing
• Governments, Public Services and Organizations

Justine has represented various clients, including:

• manufacturers in connection with various legal actions involving issues related to the conception, design and performance of a variety of goods, as well as the application of legal and contractual warranties;
• financial institutions in fraudulent bank account use and illegal fund transfer cases;
• air carriers in class actions and other judicial disputes involving their pricing policies and conditions of transportation, damages claims, as well as the compliance of their business practices with the applicable legal and regulatory framework;
• a telecommunication company in various class actions, civil actions in relation to consumer law issues, and other matters pertaining to its dealings with its clientele, business partners and other industry stakeholders.

• Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch – Corporate and Commercial Litigation, 2023-2025

• Muscular Dystrophy Canada, Member of the High Rise Challenge Organizing Committee, since 2023
• Théâtre La Licorne, Member of the Benefit Performances Honour Committee , since 2023

• Co-author: “Bill 72: New contractual requirements and credit provisions”, September 17, 2024.
• Co-author: “Consumer protection: Draft regulations regarding new monetary administrative penalties (and more new penal fines)”, September 13, 2024.
• Co-author: “Valeur du capital, vente à tempérament (et la question de droit au stade de l’autorisation d’une action collective” [Capital value, instalment sales (and the issue of law at the stage of authorization of a collective action], November 1, 2023.
• Co-author: “An Act to protect consumers from planned obsolescence and to promote the durability, repairability and maintenance of goods”, October 19, 2023.
• Co-author: “Bill 29: New obligations to consumers regarding the quality, durability and repairability of goods and amendments to the Consumer Protection Act. Manufacturers and merchants, get ready…”, June 13, 2023.
• Co-author: “The analytical framework specific to seizure before judgment: distinction with the debate on the merits of the case”, July 13, 2022.
• Co-author: “Reform to the Charter of the French Language: an overview of the main amendments”, June 9, 2022.
• Co-author: “Projet de loi 12 : importantes modifications proposées au régime d’intégrité des entreprises évoluant dans le secteur public” [Significant changes proposed to the integrity regime of public bodies], February 11, 2022.
• Co-author: “Le commerce électronique” (e-Commerce), in Guide de démarrage de l’entreprise, 3rd Edition, Young Bar of Montreal, 2022, p. 71.
• Co-author: “Réforme de la Charte de la langue française : survol des principales modifications” [Reform to the Charter of the French Language: an overview of the main amendments], May 28, 2021.
• Co-author: “New ban on reimbursements affecting patient support programs”, April 15, 2021.
• Co-author: “L’intégrité et les contrats publics depuis la création de l’Autorité des marchés publics” [Integrity and public contracting following the creation of the Autorité des marchés publics], Éditions Yvon Blais, 2021.
• Author: “2020 in Review : An exciting year of the CAI”, on the Canadian Bar Association's website, March 3, 2021.
• Author: “Commentaire sur la décision Bougie c. 9213 Québec inc. – Pratique interdite sanctionnée par la Cour du Québec : la vente de véhicules d’essai à titre de véhicules neufs” (Case comment on Bougie v. 9213 Québec inc.), Repères, Éditions Yvon Blais, July 2020, EYB2020REP3117.
• Co-author: “Commentaire sur la décision Benisty c. Kloda – L’authenticité : le sens juridique du terme” (Case comment on Benisty v. Kloda ), Repères, Éditions Yvon Blais, June 2019, EYB2019REP2771.
• Co-author: “The Autorité des marchés publics is the new actor in the Quebec public contracts regime”, Canadian Lawyer, April 30, 2019.
• Co-author: “Unenforceability in the U.S. a Non-Starter When Google Returns to the BC Supreme Court”, August 9, 2018.
• Co-author: “Free Internet-Service Contracts Caught up by Consumer Protection Legislation in Quebec”, Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada, Vol. 18, No. 11, March 2018.
• Co-author: “Free Internet-Service Contracts Caught up by Consumer Protection Legislation in Quebec”, January 17, 2018.

• Co-speaker: Modifications à la Loi sur la protection du consommateur : Nouvelles obligations pour les fabricants et commerçants en regard de la qualité des biens [Amendments to the Consumer Protection Act: New obligations for manufacturers and merchants regarding the quality of goods], Québec Bar Foundation, webinar, December 11, 2023.
• Co-speaker: L’intégrité et les contrats publics depuis la Commission Charbonneau [Integrity and public contracting following the Charbonneau Commission], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, February 12, 2021.

B.C.L./LL.B., Integrated Bachelor of Civil Law and Common Law Program, McGill University, 2015