Robert De Blois, LL.L., C.R.I.A.
rdeblois@deblois-avocats.com
Professional Experience
Mr. De Blois is one of the senior partners and cofounders of DeBlois et Associés, Barristers and Solicitors, L.L.P.
He has always privately practiced Civil Law, Insurance Law, Work and Employment Law, Disciplinary Law and work relations.
He also acted as an agent of the Attorney General of Quebec, as an agent of the Attorney General of Canada concerning penal and civil issues, and as an arbiter on the Canadian Labour Code.
Practicing work relations, he negociates collective agreements and arbitrates grievances, litigations, etc.
He also took part in parliamentary commissions, coroner investigations and public investigations to represent assigned witnesses in a court of justice. Since 1990, he also has developed the practice of police deontology and is now asked to plead in front of the Comité de déontologie as well as responding to the decisions of the Comité, and to give professional training for the Ministère de la Sécurité publique.
His practice in work relations regularly bring him to advise either enterprises directors, unions, executives, or employees on their rights and obligations from the Code du Travail, the Loi sur les normes du travail, on dismissal of executives or employees, on the interpretation and negotiation of collective agreements and on collective agreements for non-union employees.
In Insurance Law, he acts as prosecutor of insurers and insurants in the interpretation of insurance policies, hedges and dispute in the courts.
In General Civil Law, Mr. De Blois pleads in civil liability.
Professional Actvities
During his career, he was instructor at the École de formation professionnelle du Barreau, where he taught Administration Law for many years..
In 1998, Mr. De Blois edited his first book, "Initiation à la déontologie policière", which was the only popularizing work in Quebec on the entire process of police deontology, from the plead to the audition in the Comité de déontologie policière. More than 70 police organizations bought his book which is now part of the teaching program in police technics of several colleges.
In 2001, Me De Blois edited a new book called "La déontologie policière et la Loi sur la police" which is an update of the first publication, as a result of important legislative changes that occurred in June 2000. There also was a re-edition in 2005.
Mr. De Blois was invited time and again to speak on police deontology for several municipal police groups and for police students. The École nationale de police and the Ministère de la Sécurité publique regularly asks for his services to support and train cops, special agents, road traffic controllers, etc.
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