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François Pelletier
Bar Admission 1970
Law degree from Laval University
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Senior Counsel at our Quebec City office, the Honourable François Pelletier will play a significant role as mentor and trainer for professionnals in the litigation law unit. However, his areas of expertise as a lawyer also include civil and commercial law, real estate and construction law, labor law, constitutional law and professional liability. He also taught civil law at the École professionnelle du Barreau from 1976 to 1984.
Read moreHe was appointed to the Quebec Superior Court in 1997, where he served until 2000, when he joined the Quebec Court of Appeal. He has also participated in the drafting of numerous decisions regularly cited by our lawyers.
François is appreciated for the vast experience he acquired during his long career as a judge on Quebec's highest court, for his ability to listen, and for his mediation and conciliation skills.
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Services
- Civil law
- Commercial Law
- Construction Law
- Labour and Employment Law
- Litigation
- Real Estate Law
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Professional Mandates
- Professor of civil law at the École professionnelle du Barreau, Québec division, from 1976 to 1984 (law of obligations, real estate law, title search and revision).
- Chairman of the Quebec Bar Committee on the Administration of Justice from 1980 to 1983.
- Member of the Quebec Bar Committee on the Operation of Quebec Courts from 1987 to 1997.
- From 1988 to 1991, sole representative of the Quebec Bar on the Quebec Justice Department's Committee on Reform of the Code of Civil Procedure, in conjunction with the Civil Code Reform Implementation Act.
- Member of the Quebec Bar's Standing Committee on Civil Procedure from 1991 to 1997.
- Governor of the Fondation du Barreau du Québec (1992).
- Recipient of the Quebec Bar's collective merit award (June 1993).
- Chairman of the Comité de discipline des huissiers de justice du Québec (R.S.Q. Chapter H-4) from May 1994 to October 1995.
- Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Ordre professionnel des huissiers de justice du Québec from October 1995 to September 1997.
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Conferences
- Guest lecturer at Laval University's Faculty of Medicine, Division of Continuing Medical Education; moderator of the workshop on professional ethics at the Paris-Bordeaux 1992 congress.
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Social Implications
Co-founder of the Fondation de l'hôpital du St Sacrement (Quebec City) in 1984; Secretary of the Foundation from 1984 to 1991.
News
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Business, Commercial and Corporate
Duties of a Corporation’s Directors in the Event of a Conflict of Interest
Read moreShould a director of a corporation abstain from voting if there is a conflict of interest?
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Business, Commercial and Corporate
New requirements for certain Canadian companies
Read moreFighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act coming into effect
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Décès d'Yves Tourangeau
Read moreC’est avec grande tristesse que nous avons appris le décès de notre collègue, Me Yves Tourangeau, survenu le 28 mars dernier. Il était associé chez Gilbert Simard Tremblay (GST) avant l’intégration de ce cabinet chez TCJ. Yves possédait plus de 40 (…)
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