Antoine Aylwin

Antoine Aylwin practices administrative, civil and commercial litigation, with a particular focus on business, for all of the clients that he counsels and represents. His practice areas include accessing information in documents held by public bodies, protecting personal information in the public and private sectors, public and administrative law, estate litigation and extraordinary remedies, such as injunctions and judicial reviews.

In the course of his practice, he regularly pleads before various levels of courts and administrative tribunals, including the Commission d'accès à l'information and the Régie des marchés agricoles et alimentaires.

He is often invited to give conferences and publish works on such subjects as privacy and information protection. M^tre Aylwin is responsible for drafting the editorial column of the review L'Informateur Public-Privé. He also co-authored a work with M^tre Karl Delwaide entitled "Learning From a Decade of Experience: Québec's Private Sector Privacy Act", published in August 2005 for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

M^tre Aylwin supervised the preparation of the firm's recommendations on requests for reference information.

M^tre Aylwin is highly involved in the legal community. He chaired the Young Bar Association of Montreal from 2009 to 2010, and sat on a number of committees for the Bar of Montreal and the Québec Bar, including the executive committee of each of these organizations (2010-2011).

Selected Experience

• Representation of the Association des abattoirs avicoles du Québec (A.A.A.Q) concerning procurement of live poultry in Québec
• Because Even the Public Curator Can Make a Mistake in Liquidating a Succession

News

• Droit-Inc mentions that 13 Fasken Associates were made Partners
• 13 Fasken Martineau Lawyers Become Partners

Publications

• Accessing Information on the Deceased
• Commentary on Ouellet (Succession de) – A Will Cannot be Contradicted… Unless it Contradicts the Testator!

Presentations

• L'accès aux renseignements personnels d'une personne décédée - une révision des droits statutaires
• Revue de la jurisprudence civile et fiscale en matière de fiducie

Membership/Affiliations

• Member, Young Bar Association of Montreal
  • President (2009-2010)
  • Board of directors (2005-2011)
• Member, Bar of Montreal
  • Board of directors (2010-2011)
• Member, Québec Bar
  • General council and executive committee (2010-2011)
  • Professional Training Committee of the Québec Bar School (2005-2009)
  • Teacher at the Bar School (2011) 
• Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Steering committee of the Québec branch (2010-2011)
• Member, Jeune Chambre de commerce de Montréal
• Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals
  • Advisory committee of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (Canada) (2007-2011)

Community Involvement

• Serves as Fasken Martineau's Chief Privacy Officer
• Member of the Boards of director, Théâtre de la ligue nationale d'improvisation (LNI) (since 2011)