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Called to the Bar
  • Ontario (2018)
Education
  • B.C.L/LL.B, McGill University, 2017
  • B.A. (Honours), English Literature, University of Waterloo, 2013
Languages
  • French (Professional working proficiency)

Chantal deSereville

Associate
Practice Areas
Administrative & Public Law
Environmental
Municipal

Chantal deSereville is an associate in the Municipal, Planning and Land Development Practice Group at WeirFoulds. She assists both private entities and public bodies in navigating municipal, land use planning, environmental, public, and administrative law issues.

In addition to helping clients obtain and respond to development applications and appeals, Chantal provides legal opinions on planning policy matters and assists clients with a variety of court applications and provincial offences proceedings. Chantal frequently appears at the Ontario Land Tribunal and has appeared before all levels of Court in Ontario.

Chantal brings to her practice the insights she gained during her secondment to a major GTA municipality.

Chantal obtained both civil law and common law degrees from McGill University in 2017. During law school, Chantal was active in the community, volunteering at multiple community legal clinics in Montreal. She was a teaching assistant for first year contract law and served as a student advocate at McGill’s Student Advocacy Centre, where she represented students accused of academic integrity infractions.

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Experience
  • Chantal has been involved in numerous successful appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal pertaining to a wide range of planning instruments.
  • Chantal was co-counsel in the successful defense of a court challenge to a major GTA municipality’s By-law.
  • Chantal has been co-counsel in a variety of successful court applications involving legal non-conforming use matters.
  • Recipient, Alex Woo Entrance Scholarship for Academic Merit, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2013
  • Assistant coach for the Western Law Team at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot Competition, 2019
  • Judge at the Western Faculty of Law Lerners Cup Moot Competition, 2019
  • Chantal has been involved in numerous successful appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal pertaining to a wide range of planning instruments.
  • Chantal was co-counsel in the successful defense of a court challenge to a major GTA municipality’s By-law.
  • Chantal has been co-counsel in a variety of successful court applications involving legal non-conforming use matters.
  • Recipient, Alex Woo Entrance Scholarship for Academic Merit, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2013
  • Assistant coach for the Western Law Team at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot Competition, 2019
  • Judge at the Western Faculty of Law Lerners Cup Moot Competition, 2019
Community Involvement
  • Former law student volunteer at the Mile End Legal Clinic and the Tyndale Legal Clinic in Montreal

Chantal deSereville is an associate in the Municipal, Planning and Land Development Practice Group at WeirFoulds. She assists both private entities and public bodies in navigating municipal, land use planning, environmental, public, and administrative law issues.

In addition to helping clients obtain and respond to development applications and appeals, Chantal provides legal opinions on planning policy matters and assists clients with a variety of court applications and provincial offences proceedings. Chantal frequently appears at the Ontario Land Tribunal and has appeared before all levels of Court in Ontario.

Chantal brings to her practice the insights she gained during her secondment to a major GTA municipality.

Chantal obtained both civil law and common law degrees from McGill University in 2017. During law school, Chantal was active in the community, volunteering at multiple community legal clinics in Montreal. She was a teaching assistant for first year contract law and served as a student advocate at McGill’s Student Advocacy Centre, where she represented students accused of academic integrity infractions.

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Experience
  • Chantal has been involved in numerous successful appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal pertaining to a wide range of planning instruments.
  • Chantal was co-counsel in the successful defense of a court challenge to a major GTA municipality’s By-law.
  • Chantal has been co-counsel in a variety of successful court applications involving legal non-conforming use matters.
  • Recipient, Alex Woo Entrance Scholarship for Academic Merit, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2013
  • Assistant coach for the Western Law Team at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot Competition, 2019
  • Judge at the Western Faculty of Law Lerners Cup Moot Competition, 2019
  • Chantal has been involved in numerous successful appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal pertaining to a wide range of planning instruments.
  • Chantal was co-counsel in the successful defense of a court challenge to a major GTA municipality’s By-law.
  • Chantal has been co-counsel in a variety of successful court applications involving legal non-conforming use matters.
  • Recipient, Alex Woo Entrance Scholarship for Academic Merit, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2013
  • Assistant coach for the Western Law Team at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot Competition, 2019
  • Judge at the Western Faculty of Law Lerners Cup Moot Competition, 2019
Community Involvement
  • Former law student volunteer at the Mile End Legal Clinic and the Tyndale Legal Clinic in Montreal
Called to the Bar
  • Ontario (2018)
Education
  • B.C.L/LL.B, McGill University, 2017
  • B.A. (Honours), English Literature, University of Waterloo, 2013
Languages
  • French (Professional working proficiency)
Speaking Engagements
  • Speaker, “Legal and Regulatory Issues Facing Owners and Property Mangers”, PM Springfest, Toronto, ON, April 20, 2023
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