Born in Montréal, Justice Chamberland attended the Collège de Saint-Laurent (B.A. 1968) and the Université de Montréal, where he obtained his Law degree in 1971 (LL.L.), magna cum laude. He was also awarded the Lomer Gouin and Lord Reading Society prizes.
Called to the Bar of Québec in 1972, he practiced law with the firm Lavery de Billy, in Montréal, until his appointment, on March 16, 1988 as Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General for Québec. He continued to serve in these capacities until his appointment to the Court of Appeal on June 10, 1993, replacing Justice Marcel Nichols.
Justice Chamberland was President of the Quebec Games Foundation from 1986 to 1988. He was also a sessional lecturer from 1976 to 1981, first at Concordia University (Faculty of Continuing Education) and then at McGill University (Faculty of Law).
Justice Chamberland chairs the Committee of the Rules of practice (civil and criminal) of the Court of Appeal, which he has done for several years. He also chairs the Research Ethics Board of the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM) since September 2000.
Deeply interested in cross-border family laws issues, Justice Chamberland regularly takes part in the work of The Hague Conference on Private International Law regarding international child abduction. He is also a member of the international Committee of legal consultants regarding the Judges' Newsletter, a biannual publication of The Hague Conference on Private International Law. |
