The Hon. Marie Deschamps

Bibliographical Notes

The Honorable Marie Deschamps received a Licentiate in Laws from the Universit de Montral in 1974 and an LL.M. from McGill University in 1983. The Universit de Montral and the Universit de Sherbrooke each awarded her an honorary doctorate, respectively in 2008 and 2014; she received from the Law School of McGill University the F. R. Scott award for distinguished service in 2013.
She was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 2013 and received the distinction Lawyer Emeritus from the Quebec Bar in 2014.
She was called to the Quebec Bar in 1975 and practised as a litigator at Martineau Walker and Sylvestre et Matte in family, civil and commercial law, then at Rouleau, Rumanek and Sirois in criminal law and finally at Byers Casgrain in civil and commercial law. She was appointed judge to the Quebec Superior Court in 1990, to the Quebec Court of Appeal in 1992 and to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2002. She retired from the judiciary in August 2012.
In June 2014, she was appointed to conduct the Independent Review of the Canadian Armed Forces Policies on Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Harassment. In June 2015, she was named Chair of the United Nations Review Committee on the Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Militaries not under UN Command in Central Africa. In 2016, she served as Member of the Review Committee on Quebec Provincial Judges Remuneration. In 2017, she was appointed Chair of the Canadian Council of Academies Independent Assessment on Medical Aid to Die.
She has been an adjunct professor at the law schools of University of Sherbrooke since 2006 and of McGill University since 2012. She rejoined the Quebec Bar in 2013. She continues to serve as member of boards of directors. She is regularly invited to give lectures and conferences to various audiences, mostly on constitutional and commercial law and on governance and ethics.

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