Chantal deSereville

Partner

Practice Areas

Administrative & Public Law

Environmental

Municipal

Chantal deSereville is a Partner in the Municipal, Planning and Land Development Practice Group at WeirFoulds. She assists both private entities and public bodies in navigating municipal, land use planning, environmental, public, and administrative law issues.

In addition to helping clients obtain and respond to development applications and appeals, Chantal provides legal opinions on planning policy matters and assists clients with a variety of court applications and provincial offences proceedings. Chantal frequently appears at the Ontario Land Tribunal and has appeared before all levels of Court in Ontario.

Chantal brings to her practice the insights she gained during her secondment to a major GTA municipality.

Chantal obtained both civil law and common law degrees from McGill University in 2017. During law school, Chantal was active in the community, volunteering at multiple community legal clinics in Montreal. She was a teaching assistant for first year contract law and served as a student advocate at McGill’s Student Advocacy Centre, where she represented students accused of academic integrity infractions.

Experience

Chantal has been involved in numerous successful appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal pertaining to a wide range of planning instruments.
Chantal was co-counsel in the successful defense of a court challenge to a major GTA municipality’s By-law.
Chantal has been co-counsel in a variety of successful court applications involving legal non-conforming use matters.

Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch as an upcoming leading practitioner in Municipal Law (2025)
Recipient, Alex Woo Entrance Scholarship for Academic Merit, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2013

Assistant coach for the Western Law Team at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot Competition, 2019
Judge at the Western Faculty of Law Lerners Cup Moot Competition, 2019

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Notable Mandates

Chantal has been involved in numerous successful appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal pertaining to a wide range of planning instruments.
Chantal was co-counsel in the successful defense of a court challenge to a major GTA municipality’s By-law.
Chantal has been co-counsel in a variety of successful court applications involving legal non-conforming use matters.

Awards

Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch as an upcoming leading practitioner in Municipal Law (2025)
Recipient, Alex Woo Entrance Scholarship for Academic Merit, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2013

Professional Activities

Assistant coach for the Western Law Team at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot Competition, 2019
Judge at the Western Faculty of Law Lerners Cup Moot Competition, 2019

Community Involvement

Former law student volunteer at the Mile End Legal Clinic and the Tyndale Legal Clinic in Montreal

Chantal brings to her practice the insights she gained during her secondment to a major GTA municipality.

Experience

Chantal has been involved in numerous successful appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal pertaining to a wide range of planning instruments.
Chantal was co-counsel in the successful defense of a court challenge to a major GTA municipality’s By-law.
Chantal has been co-counsel in a variety of successful court applications involving legal non-conforming use matters.

Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch as an upcoming leading practitioner in Municipal Law (2025)
Recipient, Alex Woo Entrance Scholarship for Academic Merit, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2013

Assistant coach for the Western Law Team at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot Competition, 2019
Judge at the Western Faculty of Law Lerners Cup Moot Competition, 2019

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Notable Mandates

Chantal has been involved in numerous successful appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal pertaining to a wide range of planning instruments.
Chantal was co-counsel in the successful defense of a court challenge to a major GTA municipality’s By-law.
Chantal has been co-counsel in a variety of successful court applications involving legal non-conforming use matters.

Awards

Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch as an upcoming leading practitioner in Municipal Law (2025)
Recipient, Alex Woo Entrance Scholarship for Academic Merit, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2013

Professional Activities

Assistant coach for the Western Law Team at the Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot Competition, 2019
Judge at the Western Faculty of Law Lerners Cup Moot Competition, 2019

Community Involvement

Former law student volunteer at the Mile End Legal Clinic and the Tyndale Legal Clinic in Montreal

Called to the Bar

Ontario (2018)

Education

B.C.L/LL.B, McGill University, 2017
B.A. (Honours), English Literature, University of Waterloo, 2013

Languages

French (Professional working proficiency)

Speaking Engagements

Speaker, “Legal and Regulatory Issues Facing Building Owners and Property Managers”, PM Springfest 2024, Toronto, ON, May 9, 2024
Speaker, “OPPI & WeirFoulds LLP Legislative and Case Law Update 2023”, Toronto, ON, December 18, 2023
Speaker, “Legal and Regulatory Issues Facing Owners and Property Managers”, PM Springfest, Toronto, ON, April 20, 2023

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