Patrick Henry

Patrick has substantial experience before the courts, including:

• Numerous cases arising from fires in commercial or residential buildings, and involving all possible causes such as a defective equipment or human negligence
• Construction-related matters, such as the collapse of the Concorde overpass, the collapse of the tunnel portal beams and louvre grids in the Ville-Marie Tunnel in 2011, and the collapse of a concrete parking lot near the Saputo Soccer Stadium in the same year
• Defending multiple claims experts in disciplinary hearings before the Chambre de l’assurance de dommages
• Defending insurers against the Autorité des marchés financiers, the regulatory authority on insurance matters in Quebec
• Appearing in several professional liability cases involving notaries, lawyers and auditors
• Appearing before the Supreme Court in various matters, such as the consequence of a conflict between an insurance proposal and the policy, and the termination of an emphyteutic lease
• In 2007, representing design engineers as participants in the public hearings of the Commission of inquiry into the collapse of a portion of the de la Concorde overpass a year earlier

• Bar of Quebec:
  • Disciplinary Committee
  • Past lecturer on civil procedure at the Quebec Bar School
  • Past member of the Civil Procedure Reform, and Image and Ethics Committees
• Bar of Montreal: Best Practices Handbook Committee
• Canadian Bar Association

Patrick is a regular lecturer on insurance law and civil and professional liability. He has also written several journal articles, such as:

• “L’impact des enquêtes publiques sur les procédures civiles”, in Colloque sur les organismes d’enquête, Actes de la formation juridique permanente 2009, volume 6, Canadian Bar Association — Quebec Division
• “Le mensonge : du polygraphe à la déchéance”, in Développements récents en droit des assurances, 2001, volume 147, Service de la formation permanente du Barreau du Québec
• “Analyse des procédés de preuve et de leur force probante”, in Les règles de preuve: Application pratique et analyse des plus récents jugements, Montreal, Insight, October 1995

He is also a co-author of:

• Commercial Insurance Policies, Annotated, Thomson Reuters / Carswell, 1996 (looseleaf with continuing updating)
• Residential Insurance Policies, Annotated, Thomson Reuters / Carswell, 1994 (looseleaf with continuing updating)