Joséane Chrétien

Montréal

514.375.5116

joseane.chretien@mcmillan.ca

Expertise Banking & Finance Class Actions Litigation & Dispute Resolution Manufacturing

Language Spoken

English
French

Joséane Chrétien is a leading litigation lawyer with extensive experience in complex class actions. She represents clients in disputes involving breaches of the Consumer Protection Act and the Competition Act, product liability issues, cartels, and false representations. Her broad industry knowledge spans the banking and finance, manufacturing and retail sectors. She worked several years for both plaintiffs and defendants, giving her a unique insight to develop practical and effective strategies.

Also highly experienced in general commercial litigation, Joséane acts in contract and shareholder disputes. She has appeared before the Court of Québec, the Superior Court of Québec, its Court of Appeal and the Régie de l’énergie. Her publications have been cited in various court judgments. The legal directory Best Lawyers in Canada consistently recognizes Joséane as a leading lawyer in corporate and commercial litigation.

Expertise

Industries

Practices

Representative Matters

Acting as Québec counsel to major global manufacturers in connection with their product liability and consumer protection litigations;
Representing a leading pharmaceutical company in a class proceeding involving product liability allegations;
Counsel in class actions alleging false representations and damages claims;
Acting in national class actions based on price fixing and antitrust allegations;
Advising clients on highly complex commercial litigation

Speaking Engagements

Démystify class actions, Webinar, to be presented by Joséane Chrétien Sidney Elbaz (in French)

January 20, 2021

Judgment on the merits : a practical guide to the 3rd step of class actions, National Conference on Class Actions 2020, Webinar, panelist

October 23, 2020

Critical disability studies, Health law and human enhancement Doctoral school of health law annual seminar, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

May 17, 2018

Designer Babies: Creating the Children of our Dream McGill-Ottawa Health Law & Policy Graduate Student Colloquium, Ottawa, Canada

May 4, 2018

Legislation of Human Enhancement in the post-darwinian era Doctoral school of health law annual seminar, Florence, Italy

May 18, 2017

Legislation of Human Enhancement: a Healthy Concern? McGill-Ottawa Health Law & Policy Graduate Student Colloquium, Montréal, Canada

May 4, 2017

News

Media Mentions

“Demande de recours collectif contre Samsung,” by Radio-Canada, Droit Inc., February 27, 2020

Rankings & Recognition

Recognized by the Best Lawyers in Canada (2021) as a leading lawyer in the area of Corporate and Commercial Litigation
Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2020) as a leading lawyer in the area of Corporate and Commercial Litigation
Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2017-2019), Corporate and Commercial Litigation

Community Involvement

Acting on behalf of women health care clinics in the constitutional challenge of the “bubble zone” implemented according to the Act respecting health services and social services

Directorships & Affiliations

Complaint revision committee, Quebec Bar, since September 2018
President of the Salon Visez Droit, Montréal Bar, since 2018 (member of the organizing committee since 2015)
Co-President, Oxford and Cambridge Society of Montréal, since 2015
President, Town of Mont-Royal Figure Skating Club, since 2016
President of the Young Bar of Montreal (2009-10)

Education & Admissions

2003

Called to the Québec bar

In progress

Doctorate in Civil LawMcGill University

2016

LLMUniversity of Montréal

2003

Master in Comparative and European LawUniversity of Oxford, Brasenose College (UK)

2001

LLBUniversity of Montréal

Publications

“Contestation and default of the defendant, in JurisClasseur Québec – Collection Droit civil – Procedure civile 1,” Fascicule 15, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada, 2015, Loose leaf volume (available in French only) (2020)
“Admission, in JurisClasseur Québec – Collection Droit civil – Evidence et prescription ,” Fascicule 8, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada, 2012, Loose leaf volume (available in French only) (2020)
“Legal hypothec of the state or of legal persons established in the public interest, in JurisClasseur Québec Collection Droit civil – Sûretés ,” Fascicule 12, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada, 2011, Loose leaf volume (available in French only) (2020)
“Secret d’état, Privilège parlementaire et Secret du délibéré,” Claude Marseille (dir.), December 2015
“Les objections à la preuve (chapitres 9, 10 et 11, pages 153 à 172),” LexisNexis Canada, December 2015
“Contestation et défaut du défendeur,” dans JurisClasseur Québec – Collection Droit civil (Procédure civile 1, fascicule 15), LexisNexis Canada, Éd. feuilles mobiles, April 2015
“L’aveu,” dans JurisClasseur Québec – Collection Droit civil (Preuve et prescription, fascicule 8), LexisNexis Canada, Éd. feuilles mobiles, December 2012
“Hypothèque légale de l’État ou de personnes morales de droit public,” JurisClasseur Québec, Collection Droit civil (Sûretés, fascicule 12), LexisNexis Canada, Éd. feuilles mobiles, December 2011
“Proportionality and Québec Class Actions – Where do we Stand?,” Class Action Defense Quarterly Newsletter, LexisNexis Canada, March 2010
“Les recours collectifs – la jurisprudence en évolution, dans La réforme du Code de procédure civile, trois ans plus tard,” (pages 21 – 60), 2006
“S. Conte et K. Taylor,” Service de formation continue du Barreau du Québec (2006), Éditions Yvon Blais, 2006

Insights by Joséane Chrétien (4 Posts)

h4>Managing Disputes During COVID-19

While disputes are an unavoidable risk of doing business, companies need to know how to protect their interests during this time of uncertainty.

Apr 21, 2020

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