Roch Dupont

Biography

Roch Dupont has been a lawyer for the last 20 years and has practiced in various provinces across Canada as both a criminal defence lawyer and as a Crown Attorney for the Attorney General of Canada. Roch has practiced in areas of competition law, mergers and acquisitions, price fixing conspiracies and fraudulent telemarketing. Roch was also a federal prosecutor for drugs and gangs enforcement as well as bankruptcy and insolvency in fraudulent bankruptcies. Prior to being a lawyer, Roch was a police officer for about 16 years with the Ottawa police, and had a variety of roles within the police department over the years such as major crimes investigator, a police mobile emergency response unit and in crimes against children. Roch has received training in terrorism financing and money laundering, major crime files prosecutions and the use of electronic interception for criminal prosecutions.

Roch has appeared in every level of courts in every province in Canada from the Provincial court level to the appellate court level including the Federal Court of Canada.

Roch has experience in all aspects of criminal, regulatory and administrative law. Roch was also an adjunct professor in Bankruptcy and Insolvency law at the University of Ottawa in addition to teaching criminal investigation courses to enforcement officers across the country. Roch is fluently bilingual and can serve clients in both official languages.

More recently Roch was also involved in conducting class action litigation in various provinces including the province of Quebec. Roch has been involved in the 60 scoop litigation, consumer products litigation and pharmaceutical class actions.

Main Areas of Expertise

Criminal law

Regulatory law

Civil litigation

Bankruptcy and insolvency

Family law

Administrative law

Labour law

Traffic enforcement law

Competition law

Personal injury

Class actions

Consumer protection

Education

College diploma in police studies

Diploma in advance police investigation techniques

Bachelor social sciences in economics

LL.L, bachelor in Quebec civil law

LL.B, bachelor in common law

Bachelor of Arts in psychology

Quebec bar admission course diploma

Ontario bar admission course diploma

Certificate of advanced languages proficiency in French

Diploma of the Federal prosecutor’s school

Certificate as a federal mediator

Diploma in bankruptcy analysis and official receiver

Leadership, Membership & Comunity Involvement

Member of the Saskatchewan trial lawyers association

Member of the Canadian bar Association

Member of the Quebec bar

Member of the Ontario bar

Member of the Saskatchewan bar

Merit award for inventing new enforcement option in telemarketing fraud

Merit award for prosecuting largest price fixing cartel in Canada