Health and Social Services Group
The health and social services group provides legal opinions and advice in a wide range of areas of the law, including contracts, statutory interpretation, administrative law (including administrative hearings and judicial reviews), intellectual property, privacy, trusts and family law.
Examples of the types of cases on which you may work
Lawyers with the health and social services group have provided advice on such matters as:
- The effect of the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Chaoulli and Zeliotis v. AG Quebec and AG Canada on how the Province deals with wait time issues in the context of administering the Medical Services Plan;
- Issues involving the deaths of children in care;
- The Province’s action against major tobacco companies for the recovery of tobacco-related health care costs; and
- Cases under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction.
