Description
Michel Beaupré is a versatile lawyer and pleader. His academic training in Québec, the United States and England, especially in the area of comparative law, has given him wide-ranging legal knowledge allowing him to devise innovative arguments and solutions in his litigation files.
He represents and advises our corporate and institutional clientele in a wide range of areas. He appears on a regular basis before courts and administrative tribunals in complex litigation matters in a variety of practice areas (civil and commercial litigation, administrative law, health law, aboriginal law, professional liability, government liability, defamation, etc.).
Michel is included in the 2010 and 2011 editions of the prestigious The Best Lawyers in Canada® directory, in Administrative and Public Law.

Associations & Achievements
2011-2013 - Governor of the Québec Bar Foundation
2011-2012 - Member of the fundraising campaign committee of the Centre de prévention du suicide de Québec

Since 2009 - Member of the Board of Directors of Festival d'été de Québec (Québec City Summer Festival) and secretary of the board of directors and member of the executive committee since December 2010.

Since 2001 - Member of the Quebec Bar discipline committee and since 2009, member of the France-Québec arbitration committee of the Quebec Bar, and governor of the Quebec Bar Foundation.

Presentations & Conferences
2011 - Guest speaker at one of Laval University law faculty's recurring conferences at its center for the study of economic law

2011 - Aboriginal Forum, March 21-22, 2011 : "The Bastien and Dubé cases before the Supreme Court of Canada: the joys, but mostly woes, of the connecting factor criteria"

Michel has taught a post-graduate course at Laval University's pharmacy faculty on the civil liability of pharmaceutical research companies. He has also been a sessional lecturer in the University of Montréal's health-law certificate program, and has been an instructor in the continuing education program of Cégep de Ste-Foy on the potential liability of professional nurses.

Over the years, Michel has also given several presentations at conferences organized by various associations in the healthcare field (Québec Association of Microbiologists, Association of Infection Prevention Specialists, Québec General Surgeons' Association, Community and Hospital Infection Control Association - Canada, etc.).

Publications
1994 - Hate Speech vs Free Speech : The International Trend and a Comparative Analysis of the American and Canadian Perspectives, Masters thesis in international and comparative law (Iowa, USA)

1992 - Le lien juridique médecin - centre hospitalier (The legal nexus between physician and hospital), Masters thesis in Health Law (University of Sherbrooke)

Representative mandates
Succession Succession Rolland Bastien v. Canada Revenue Agency (Supreme Court of Canada)
Represented the appellant succession (estate) in a taxation matter involving the immunity from taxation of investment income of Indians on a reserve. This case challenged the consistent and unanimous case law of the Federal Court of Appeal on this issue since 1998. The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal, unanimously overturning the Tax Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal.

R. v. Morris, [2006] 2 S.C.R. 915
Intervened at the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of a First Nation in a matter concerning the updating of hunting rights under a 19th century treaty.

Identity of parties represented confidential
Defended three multinational corporations in the telecommunications, pharmaceutical products and financial services fields against class actions alleging illegal trade practices, product liability and misrepresentation of the guaranteed nature of certain investment products.

Identity of parties represented confidential
In two separate mandates, represented judges of the Court of Québec summoned as witnesses in civil proceedings. The mandates were given by the Québec Judicial Council in order to uphold the principle that judges cannot be compelled to testify and their deliberations are confidential.

Paul Roy v. Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, [1990] R.J.Q. 180 (Superior Court) and 310 (Court of Appeal)
Obtained the first safeguard order issued by the Quebec Court of Appeal to be in force during an appeal, with respect to hospital privileges.

The identity of the party represented is confidential Represented a construction company over a nine-year period in legal and conventional arbitration proceedings and proceedings before the Court of Québec, the Superior Court, and the Court of Appeal for the purposes of obtaining leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, all related to multiple judicial proceedings following the execution of one of the rare search warrants issued by the Commission de la construction du Québec pursuant to the Act Respecting Labour Relations in the Construction Industry. 

The identity of the party represented is confidential Representative and member of the team of a major mutual defence association in three class action proceedings potentially involving billions of dollars in damages and compensation. A settlement was reached for two of the three proceedings on the basis of a multi-faceted agreement for, among other things, the establishment of a multipartite issue table. As for the third proceeding, a motion to dismiss the application for authorization of the class action was granted on the grounds of insufficiency and plaintiff’s failure to adequately represent the class.