"You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence."

ZADIE SMITH

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Practice areas

  • Civil and commercial litigation
  • Defamation and media law
  • Administrative law and access to information
  • Public and constitutional law
  • Appellate litigation
  • Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution
  • Class actions

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Molly has notably:

REPRESENTED a coalition of professionals specialized in trans and non-binary health intervening on appeal in a constitutional challenge to the laws and regulations governing sex designation change and name change for minors

ACTED successfully for the appellant in litigation before the Supreme Court of Canada involving the invocation of international lis pendens to stay ongoing proceedings in Quebec: R.S. v. P.R., 2019 SCC 49.

REPRESENTED journalists in contestations of denials by public bodies of access-to-information requests

ACTED for a technology company in proposed class action proceedings in the area of consumer protection and product liability

REPRESENTED a consumer advocate in an application for the issuance of a permanent injunction banning the publication of certain information online

ACTED for a real estate developer in litigation involving the alleged nullity of a decision rendered by the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec

ADVISED a media organization and its journalists in connection with journalistic investigations, journalistic work product, and podcasts prior to and following publication

ACTED for a Canadian financial institution in a confidential multi-party arbitration regarding the financing of an independent foreign film production

ACTED for an aviation company in contractual litigation involving the applicability of a forum selection clause

Professional activities and initiatives

Course lecturer, “Media Law”, Faculty of Law, McGill University (2023)

Board of Directors, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund – Québec Branch

Canadian Media Lawyers’ Association/Ad IDEM

Young Bar Association of Montreal

Co-course lecturer, “Advanced Civil Law Obligations”, Faculty of Law, McGill University (2018-2020)

Education

B.C.L./LL.B., Faculty of Law, McGill University (Principal David L. Johnston Medal, Dean’s Honour List – 2014

Exchange semester, Faculty of Law, l’Université d’Aix-Marseille – 2013

B.A. International Development Studies (major), Spanish Language (minor), Faculty of Arts, McGill University (First Class Honours with Distinction) – 2010

Languages

Molly is fluent in English and French.

Publications of Molly Krishtalka