Our Expertise
Our administrative law team is recognized for its experience and for the scope of its interventions in all areas of this practice. Our lawyers represent various professional orders, universities, health organizations and police forces.
- Access to information and protection of personal information
- Contracting by public bodies
- Judicial review of government actions
- Public and constitutional law
- Public freedoms and human rights
- Economic development corporations
With more than fifty years of municipal law experience, our team is a strategic ally and reliable reference for the municipal sector. Both as prosecutors for municipalities, RCMs or other parapublic organizations and as facilitators, trainers or speakers, our lawyers leverage their in-depth knowledge to support municipal governance. Their expertise also extends to urban planning, municipal taxation and expropriation.
- Urban planning and development
- Contracting by municipal bodies
- Judicial review of municipal bodies
- Municipal courts and penal law
- Other fields of law affecting municipal bodies
- The law and Aboriginal-titled territories and Aboriginal governance
- Municipal ethics and professional conduct
- Environment
- Property assessment
- Expropriation
- Municipal taxation
- Municipal organization and procedures
- Private public partnerships
- Protection of agricultural land
- Municipal bylaws
- Municipal liability and disguised expropriation
- Municipal liability
Our administrative law practitioners have acquired extensive experience in real estate law over the years in their capacity as consultants on the drafting of various pieces of legislation applicable in Quebec and various by-laws of many of the province’s municipalities. These legal professionals have developed refined expertise in their field of practice thus ensuring that client projects will be carried out in compliance with such legislation and by-laws.
Acting on behalf of government authorities, our lawyers are fully qualified to give them legal advice, negotiate on their behalf, represent them before the courts and draft agreements and contracts that secure and safeguard their interests in matters involving:
- emphyteutic leases
- property valuation
- title examination
- expropriation and imposition of land reserves
- public-private partnerships
- surface rights
- the drafting of agreements with property developers
- representation before the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec (CPTAQ) as regards the agricultural sector
- servitudes
- land use
- usufruct