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  1. Chloé Fauchon and Charlotte Fortin comment on the Act to amend the Environment Quality Act

    In an article published by Éditions Yvon Blais in La Référence, Chloé Fauchon and Charlotte Fortin, lawyers of the Public and Administrative Law group, analyze and comment on the main amendments to the Environment Quality Act under the Act to amend the Environment Quality Act to modernize the environmental authorization scheme and to amend other legislative provisions, in particular to reform the governance of the Green Fund (Bill 102). Click here to consult the article (in french only).

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  2. Marie Cossette and Charlotte Fortin participate in the Strategic Day on Disciplinary Law

    Marie Cossette, the partner responsible for the Corporate and Business Integrity and Public and Administrative Law groups for the Québec City office, and Charlotte Fortin, a lawyer in the Public and Administrative Law group, participated in the Strategic Day on Disciplinary Law organized by Open Forum and held at the Hyatt Regency in Montréal on April 25. Marie Cossette, honorary chair, discussed the role of the board of directors of a professional order in light of Bill 98, while Charlotte Fortin spoke about “The “Top 10” Decisions in Disciplinary Law in 2016”.

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  3. Pier-Olivier Fradette and Charlotte Fortin present recent developments in municipal law

    On March 17, Pier-Olivier Fradette and Charlotte Fortin, lawyers in the Administrative Law group, gave a presentation at the 26th annual conference on recent developments in municipal law organized by the Barreau du Québec. The presentation dealt with the new Act to improve the legal situation of animals and analyzed the novel features of that Act, the standards it maintains from previous legislation, and its impact on the treatment of animals and on municipalities’ powers in the management of domestic animals and stray animals.

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  4. Pier-Olivier Fradette and Charlotte Fortin comment on the Superior Court’s decision dealing with the City of Montreal’s by-law concerning pitbull-type dogs

    In a paper published in La Référence, Pier-Olivier Fradette and Charlotte Fortin, lawyers, summarized and commented the Lours v. Ville de Montréal decision regarding the Superior Court’s decision to prohibit pitbull-type dog rendered on October 5, 2016. In this decision, which has significant impacts on municipal law, Quebec Superior Court suspended the entry into force of several provisions of the Règlement sur le contrôle des animaux de la Ville de Montréal. This suspension was applicable until the merit hearing regarding the validity of the application initiated by Mrs. Lours and the SPCA. On December 1, 2016, the Quebec Court of Appeal received Ville de Montréal’s appeal of this by-law suspension. In their comments on the original decision, Ms. Fortin and M. Fradette raised several of the grounds cited by the Court of Appeal to reverse the suspension.

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  5. The 2016 edition of Lavery’s Symposium in Labour and Employment Law in Quebec City was a great success

    Lavery’s Québec office held the 2016 edition of its Symposium in Labour and Employment Law on September 28, 2016, at hotel Quartier, and it was a great success. On this occasion, attendees got to participate in various workshops presented by Marie-Hélène Riverin, Brittany Carson and Charlotte Fortin. Speakers addressed many different subjects, such as best practices in recruiting, employment termination and disability management.

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  6. Chloé Fauchon and Charlotte Fortin participate in a discussion on climate change with the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change

    On August 23, 2016, Chloé Fauchon and Charlotte Fortin, as members of Jeunes Philanthropes de Québec, participated in a meeting led by Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable  Catherine McKenna and Joël Lightbound, MP for Louis-Hébert.  The purpose of this meeting was to exchange ideas regarding the steps governments and citizens can take to fight climate change. The Minister was in Quebec City to participate in a series of meetings aimed at reaching a pan-Canadian agreement on clean growth and focused on the fight against climate change planned for this fall. Ms. Fortin also sits on the board of directors of Jeunes Philanthropes de Québec, a not-for-profit organization founded a few years ago by Jean-Simon Deschênes, partner at Lavery and a member of the Business law group.  Left to right: Chloé Fauchon, Charlotte Fortin, the Honourable Catherine McKenna and Joël Lightbound.

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  7. Lavery holds a symposium in Labour and Employment Law in Quebec City

    Lavery’s Quebec City office organized a symposium in Labour and Employment Law on September 30, 2015. Gathered at Hôtel Quartier, about 30 attendees got to participate in various workshops presented by Marie-Hélène Riverin, Charlotte Fortin, Jean-François Pagé and Nicolas Joubert. Speakers addressed many different subjects, starting with a retrospective of decisions of interest in that field, as well as presentations regarding a variety of problems that can arise in the workplace.

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  8. Daniel Bouchard gives a conference on environmental law

    On May 29, 2015, Daniel Bouchard, Managing Partner of Lavery’s Quebec City Office and lawyer specialized in the fields of municipal, environmental and administrative law, gave a conference at theIntercontinental Hotel of Montreal during the training sessions of the Quebec Bar “Recent developments in environmental law”. Over 60 environmental lawyers attended this conference entitled “La gestion par les municipalités de l’écoulement des eaux dans les cours d’eau: quoi de neuf?” (Municipalities’ management of water flow towards streams: what’s new?), which discussed the new case laws in environment of the past 12 months and summed up the most relevant decisions for members of the Bar. The text of this conference, prepared in collaboration with Ms. Charlotte Fortin, is published by Éditions Yvon Blais in “Développement récent en droit de l’environnement”,Service de la formation continue du Barreau du Québec, vol. 401, 2015. To order a copy, click here (in French only).

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