Denis Mondor

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Denis Mondor is a judge and former high-profile lawyer in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Lawyer

Mondor holds a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal and was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1984. [1] He was a criminal lawyer and administrator prior to his appointment to the bench. He served as treasurer of the Montreal Defence Lawyers' Association from 1990 to 1999 and was a spokesperson for this organization during a December 1996 defense lawyers' strike, which was called to protest the Quebec government's proposed changes to divorce law and cuts to legal aide. [2] He later served as the association's president in 2002–03. [3]

Mondor served on the council of the Bar of Montreal in 2001–03 and was president (batonnier) of the Bar of Quebec in 2004–05. He met with legal aid lawyers agitating for a new collective agreement December 2004, in what was described as a gesture of solidarity. [4] He later decried a shortage of new legal stenographers in the province. [5]

In March 2005, Mondor stated that the Bar of Quebec was strongly opposed to the use of religious law in private arbitration. He argued that the laws of Quebec and Canada "prohibit the use of arbitration in realms affecting the fundamental rights of individuals, including family law". [6]

Political candidate

Mondor ran as an Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) candidate in a by-election in the Montreal division of Bourget in 2008. During the campaign, he defended his party's controversial proposal to freeze the number of new immigrants permitted into the province. [7] Considered a star candidate, he nonetheless finished a distant fourth place, a result Montreal Gazette writer Philip Authier described as "disastrous" for the party. [8]

Judge

Mondor was appointed to the Court of Quebec's criminal and penal division in Montreal on November 16, 2011. [9]

In July 2012, he granted an unconditional discharge to a low-level cannabis dealer who had been apprehended by accident during an attempted sting on a crack dealer in the Rivière des Prairies area. Noting that the accused had turned his life around since the arrest, Mondor said that it would not be in society's interest to burden him with a criminal record. [10]

Electoral record

Quebec provincial by-election, May 12, 2008: Bourget
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Parti Québécois Maka Kotto 6,57540.66−0.60
Liberal Lyn Thériault 5,16131.92+9.07
Green Scott McKay 1,83911.37+3.28
Action démocratique Denis Mondor 1,5209.40−13.61
Québec solidaire Gaétan Legault 7004.33+0.14
Parti indépendantiste Richard Gervais 3762.33–
Total valid votes16,17199.01–
Total rejected ballots1620.99–
Turnout16,33334.55−35.34
Electors on the lists47,276––
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

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References

  1. ↑ Newly appointed judges of the Court of Quebec, Tribunaux judiciaires du Québec, accessed 19 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Daudelin's arrest discredits Quebec justice system" [editorial], Montreal Gazette, 6 March 1996, B3; "Lawyers' strike stills courthouse," Montreal Gazette, 13 December 1996, A4.
  3. ↑ Me Denis Mondor, Ad. E., Bar of Quebec, accessed 19 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "The Bar of Montreal," Globe and Mail, 14 May 2002, B7; Montreal Gazette, 2 December 2004, B3.
  5. ↑ Sarah Dougherty, "Strictly Legal: Tracking issues and movements within Montreal's legal community," Montreal Gazette, 3 March 2005, B3.
  6. ↑ Sarah Dougherty, "Strictly legal," Montreal Gazette, 10 March 2005, B3. The quoted text is from Dougherty, not Mondor.
  7. ↑ Hubert Bauch, "ADQ accused of pandering to racism," Montreal Gazette, 26 April 2008, A12.
  8. ↑ Philip Authier, "Dumont tries to put spark back into troubled ADQ; Soul searching follows meltdown," Montreal Gazette, 14 May 2008, A12.
  9. ↑ Newly appointed judges of the Court of Quebec, Tribunaux judiciaires du Québec, accessed 19 November 2012.
  10. ↑ Paul Cherry, "Unlucky pot dealer gets discharge in court," Montreal Gazette, 28 July 2012, A4.
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