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Languages:
English & French
Legal Practice
Administrative Law, Employment Law, Labor Law, Commercial Litigation,
Professional Negligence, Appeals, Constitutional Law.
Robert practices before the labour tribunals in both the private
and public sectors, in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince
Edward Island. He has also been Vice-Chair of the Employment
Standards Tribunal and the Public Service Labour Relations Board,
all in New Brunswick.
He is well versed in the regulations, standards of practice
and ethical obligations of health and legal professionals, having
represented individuals and regulatory bodies before complaints
and discipline committees and the Courts. He gives advice on
matters such as confidentiality and ownership of files, sexual
abuse, conflicts of interest and dual relationships, termination
of treatment, fee arrangements and other matters of professional
conduct.
Community Involvement
President of the law Society of N.B. 2006 - 2007
Memberships
- Member, Canadian Bar Association since 1981
- Member, New Brunswick Bar Association since 1977
- Member, Moncton Area Lawyers' Association since 1981
- Chair Resurgo Inc., 2005
- Director, Canadian Transportation Lawyers' Association
2005
- Past Vice-Chair, Employment Standards Tribunal of New
Brunswick
- Past Vice-Chair, Public Service Labour Relations Board
of New Brunswick
- Past Vice-Chair, Appeal Board on Teacher Certification
of New Brunswick
- Canada Lands Company Limited
- Canada Lands Company CLC Limited
- Blue Cross Life of Canada where he chairs the Conduct Review Committee and serves on the Audit Committee.
- Chair of the New Brunswick Celebrate Canada Committee.
- Concept + Inc.
- Atlantic Provinces Advisory Council of University Scholarships of Canada.
- President of the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce (1991-92)
- President of the Moncton Boys & Girls Club.
- Boards of Moncton Youth Residences, Junior Achievement
of Moncton, Boys & Girls Club of New Brunswick, the Greater Moncton Economic Commission, Moncton Industrial Developments Inc. and the Certified General Accountants Association of New Brunswick.
Actively involved in his profession, he
chaired the Civil Litigation Subsection of the Canadian Bar
Association, New Brunswick Branch for five years. He sat on
the Examination Committee, the Bar Admission Committee, the
Seizure of Practice Committee of his Law Society, and was
the Atlantic Provinces representative to Federation of Law
Societies' Joint Education Committee on Continuing Legal Education.
He chaired the Compensation Fund Committee of the Law Society
of New Brunswick for ten years and was a member of the Law
Society’s Compensation Fund Task Force. He was a member
of the task force responsible for the drafting of the Law
Society Act, 1996.
He lectures at the Bar Admission course. He has been course
leader in legal drafting, professional conduct and administrative
law. He lectured at the Université de Moncton Law School
and Business School and to the New Brunswick Real Estate Association
FRI, MVA and AACI law courses.
He frequently gives seminars to charitable
and for-profit Boards of Directors on a variety of governance
issues.
Education
Bachelor of Science, University of Moncton 1977
Bachelor of Laws, University of New Brunswick
1980
Bar Admission: 1981
Queen's Counsel: 2001
Contact Information
Forbes Roth Basque
PO Box 480
Suite 300 - 814 Main Street
Moncton, NB
Canada E1C 8L9
Telephone: 506.857.4880
Telecopier: 506.857.0151
Cellular: 506.383.0458
email: grbasque@forbesrothbasque.nb.ca
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