Geneviève Claveau

• Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Public and Administrative Law
• Constitutional Law
• Securities Litigation
• Internal and Regulatory Investigations, Compliance and White Collar Defence
• Civil and Commercial Litigation
• Appellate Advocacy

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

• Before the Québec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, a stevedoring company operating a marine facility in a dispute over the applicability and operability of the Private Security Act with respect to the company’s activities.
• Before the Québec Court of Appeal, the Canadian Cancer Society in connection with the constitutionality of Québec’s legislative and regulatory framework on e-cigarettes.
• Before the Québec Court of Appeal, two non-profit organizations in a constitutional challenge of Bill 21.
• Before the Québec Superior Court, two Indigenous organizations in a constitutional challenge of the Charter of the French language.
• A Canadian telecommunications company in a class action regarding data roaming fees instituted on behalf of consumers.
• An online securities broker in a consumer-led currency-conversion class action.
• Individuals and businesses before the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal.

• Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch – Corporate and Commercial Litigation, 2024-2026

• Young Bar of Montréal, Member, since 2017
• The Advocates' Society, Member, since 2019
• Liaison Committee with the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal, Bar of Montréal, Member, 2023-2025

• Co-author: “Constitutional law and the division of powers: the SCC clarifies the analytical framework applicable to the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity”, June 3, 2025.
• Co-author: “R. v. Montour: a drastic shift in Indigenous rights jurisprudence”, January 11, 2024.
• Co-author: “Commentaire sur la décision Quebec English School Boards Association c. Procureur général du Québec – La Cour supérieure déclare contraires à l’article 23 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés certaines dispositions modifiant la gouvernance scolaire anglophone” [Case comment on Quebec English School Boards Association v. Procureur général du Québec – The Superior Court has ruled that certain provisions aimed at modifying the governance of English school boards are contrary to section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms], Repères, Éditions Yvon Blais, December 2023, EYB2023REP3693.
• Co-author: “L’application de la Loi sur les valeurs mobilières aux phénomènes de cryptoactifs : regard sur la jurisprudence du Tribunal administratif des marchés financiers” [The enforcement of the Securities Act regarding cryptoassets: A look at the case law of the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal], Développements récents en litige de valeurs mobilières, Éditions Yvon Blais, Vol. 538, 2023.
• Co-author: “Reference re Impact Assessment Act: Supreme Court majority rules that the presumption of constitutionality cannot save the Act from being unconstitutional in part”, October 30, 2023.
• Co-author: “The Ontario Court of Appeal reaffirms that only a clear, explicit and unequivocal statutory provision can abrogate solicitor-client and litigation privilege”, June 2, 2023.
• Co-author: “Public interest standing: The Supreme Court reaffirms its Canada (Attorney General) v. Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society analysis”, July 20, 2022.
• Co-author: “Bilingualism required? The New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench considers the appointment of a unilingual English speaking Lieutenant-Governor”, June 27, 2022.
• Author: “Commentaire sur la décision Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (Lussier) c. Ville de Montréal (arrondissement d'Outremont) – La révocation par le conseil d’arrondissement du mandat d’un membre du Comité consultatif d'urbanisme après qu’il a tenté de briguer la mairie constitue de la discrimination fondée sur les convictions politiques” [Case comment on Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (Lussier) v. Ville de Montréal (arrondissement d'Outremont) – The revocation of the mandate of a Urban Planning Advisory Committee member by the borough council after this member attempted to seek the mayoralty represents a form of discrimination based on political convictions], Repères, 2022, EYB2022REP3493.
• Co-author: “Lessons in evidence, procedure and natural justice from the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal”, August 19, 2021.
• Co-author: “Peace, order, good government and… climate change: the Supreme Court articulates the constitutional doctrine of the national concern”, April 16, 2021.

• Co-speaker: La position des tribunaux québécois à l’égard des cryptoactifs [The Québec courts’ position on cryptoassets], as part of the symposium La transformation de la finance par les cryptoactifs : analyse juridique comparée, organized by the Chaire de recherche sur les contrats intelligents et la chaîne de blocs – Chambre des notaires du Québec and the Laboratoire international associé : contrats, sûretés et insolvabilité des consommateurs et des entreprises, Université Laval, Québec, November 29, 2024.
• Co-speaker: Meilleures pratiques – enquêtes internes [Best practices – Internal audits], workshop for a client, Montréal, November 30, 2023.
• Co-speaker: L’application de la Loi sur les valeurs mobilières aux phénomènes de cryptoactifs : regard sur la jurisprudence du Tribunal administratif des marchés financiers [The enforcement of the Securities Act with respect to cryptoassets: A look at the case law of the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal], Développements récents en litige de valeurs mobilières 2023, Québec Bar, Montréal, October 19, 2023.
• Co-speaker: Arrêt Marcotte : enjeux constitutionnels en lien avec la LPC [The Marcotte ruling: Constitutional issues related to the CPA], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, December 8, 2022. 

J.D., Osgoode Hall Law School, 2016

LL.B., Université de Montréal, 2015