Access to information

Available and public documents

A number of documents dealing with oversight of the profession are already available or accessible on the website of the Barreau du Québec, including:

• the rolls of the Disciplinary Council
• disciplinary decisions
• the annual reports of the Order which describe the work of all the Order's statutory committees (e.g.: Admissions Committee, Equivalences Committee, Compulsory Professional Development Committee) as required by the Office des professions
• the minutes and agendas of meetings of the Board of Directors, except for confidential matters

Applying for access to information

However, if a document dealing with oversight of the profession which you would like to access is not on the website, or if you would like to make another type of application for access, follow these steps.

1. Your application must be in writing. To facilitate the processing of your application, it must contain the following information

   • The name of the document to which you want access.
   • Your full contact information (the access to information officer may have to contact you by telephone to clarify your application, and we need your contact information in order to send you the correspondence required by law). If your application does not contain any contact information, we will not be able to process it. 

2. You must send your application by mail to this address

   Access to Information Officer/Barreau du Québec
   Maison du Barreau du Québec 
   445 Saint-Laurent Boulevard
   Montreal, Québec  H2Y 3T8

   or by fax: 514-954-3407

All applications for access addressed to the access to information officer will receive a written acknowledgement of receipt.

Note Only decisions rendered in response to a written application for access can give rise to an application for review before the Commission d’accès à l’information.