Monique Evans
Canada Guide 2024
Associates to watch : Transportation: Rail & Road
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Provided by Monique Evans
Practice Areas
Monique Evans practices commercial and civil litigation, and transportation law with a particular focus on railway and trucking matters. Monique has acted on matters at all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada, and before various tribunals and private arbitrators. Her experience has touched on a variety of industries and subject areas.
Monique has extensive experience using statutory remedies against federal railway companies to obtain better freight rates, terms and conditions, and rail service for shippers, terminals, and other clients. These remedies include level of service complaint proceedings before the Canadian Transportation Agency, final offer arbitration, and arbitration on level of services. Monique also has experience with rail siding and track use agreements, extended interswitching, demurrage, discontinuance, railway supplemental services, challenging railway tariffs, and railway certificates of fitness.
More recently, Monique has acted for container trucking companies and associations in matters under the Container Trucking Act and Regulation, including advising on truck tag applications and audits by the Container Trucking Commissioner.
Monique has been recognized as an “Associate to Watch” in Transportation: Rail & Road by Chambers Canada.
Publications
Monique Evans, “Parens Patriae and Public Trust: Litigating Environmental Harm Per Se” (2016) 12-1 McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law 1.