User:Paul Marquis

(Marc) Paul Marquis (August 19, 1970) is a Canadian jurist (lawyer), guitarist, and musician. He received a Bachelors of Laws degree in 1997 from the University of Moncton. He became a member of the New Brunswick Law Society in 1998. He practiced criminal law in the early stages of his career. He later joined the law firm of Bourque, Voyer & Cie in 1999, in Edmundston, New Brunswick, where he practiced personal injury, insurance, and administrative law. He moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2007, accepting employment with the Attorney General of Canada. He became a member of the Nova Scotia Bar in 2008. He worked extensively as a trial lawyer in fisheries, maritime law, administrative and tort law while working for 12 years with the Department of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. In 2019, he left Halifax for Ottawa, Ontario, to become an in-house counsel with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, where he currently practices law. He appeared before the New Brunswick Provincial Court, the New Brunswick Court of Kings’s Bench, the Nova Scotia Superior Court, the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada. He co-wrote 4 volumes on legal practice precedents for the Association des juristes d’expression française du Nouveau Brunswick with Annie Daneault, Q.C., in the mid 1990’s. He also gave several workshops on Legal Project Management topics.

One of the notable legal case of his career was Anglehart v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 FC 1159, 2018 FCA 115, 2019 CanLII 21181 (SCC), a landmark decision in torts, administrative, and fisheries law. This transpired into a mega trial where he and his legal team (which included the Honorable Edith M. Campbell (a Judge of the Yukon Supreme Court), Toni Abi Nasr, and Janice Mah) were largely successful against hundreds of snow crab fishermen of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in a class-action type litigation suing Canada for over $500,000,000.00 in damages.

His earlier career was in music as a guitarist. He received a Bachelor of Music (guitar interpretation and pedagogy) from the University of Moncton. He studied with Professor Michel Cardin, a professional lutenist and theorboist and baroque and renaissance expert. He graduated with a B.MUS in classical guitar interpretation and pedagogy in 1993. He also was an adjunct classical guitar professor at that university from 1991 to 1997.