The Pierre-Basile-Mignault Moot Court Competition: three prizes for a team supervised by Lavery

Laurence Bich-Carrière Maude Lafortune-Bélair Justin Gravel Audrey-Julie Dallaire On February 17th and 18th, 2017, the 39th edition of the Pierre-Basile-Mignault pleading competition was held between students from six civil law faculties in Canada.

Lavery has been involved in this competition for several years. This year, students from two teams were supervised by four lawyers from the Litigation group:

UQAM’s appellant team won the Yvon Blais Cup, which is awarded to the finalist team.

Two members of the UQAM team were awarded prizes for best speaker: Laurence Landry-Plouffe received the Canadian Bar Association Cup, Quebec Division (2nd best) and Mélissa Desgroseillers was the recipient of the Lavery Cup (3rd best).

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