Overview
Camille Ingarao will focus her practice on administrative, municipal, urban planning and environmental law. She has particular expertise in zoning, land use planning, environmental policy, municipal taxation and expropriation matters. She represents her clients before public and judicial bodies and advises them on various litigious and strategic issues.
Camille represents and advises individuals, businesses and professionals in planning and carrying out real estate projects, the exercise of uses, buildings and constructions implantation, and managing of real estate assets. She focuses her practice on the following areas: compliance with applicable statutes and regulations, recognition and application of acquired rights, obtaining and contesting permits, certificates of authorization or occupancy, regulatory amendments or other authorizations (minor exemptions, special construction, modification or occupancy projects for buildings, conditional uses, site planning and architectural integration plans, comprehensive development plans, etc.), and recognizing or contesting rights of way or easements.
She also represents and supports clients throughout the expropriation process against municipalities, government departments or other government bodies, including in actions involving disguised expropriation or to contest notices of expropriation .
She leverages her municipal tax experience to advise and represent clients in challenging entries on the property assessment roll, municipal taxes’ exemptions, loan by-laws’ adoption and application, contributions for the purposes of parks, and application of transfer duties and development charges.
Prior to joining Miller Thomson, Camille began her legal career with boutique law firms working in municipal, environmental and public real estate law, first as an articling student and then as a litigation lawyer.
Notable matters
- Laferté c. Ville de Magog, 2023 QCCS 3360
- Responsable du CIUSSS A c. 9281-3278 Québec Inc., 2023 CanLII 105249 (QCTAQ)
- Immeubles Blue Stone inc. c. Ville de Montréal et l’arrondissement Côte-des-Neiges--Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, 2022 QCCS 1148
- Immeubles Blue Stone inc. c. Ville de Montréal (arrondissement Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce), 2021 QCCS 3294 – Provisional injunction
- Supermarché Saint-Hilaire inc. c. Ville de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, 2019 QCCS 4363 – Interlocutory injunction
Thought leadership
- Louis Beauregard and Camille Ingarao, “’TAXE’ du REM: impact majeure sur le développement immobilier près des stations,” in Association québécoise d’urbanisme, Revue québécoise d’urbanisme, Vol. 40, September 2, 2020.
- In collaboration with Mtre. Sébastien Poirier, “L’impact de la réglementation d’urbanisme sur l’indemnité principale en matière d’expropriation,” in Quebec Bar, Continuing Legal Education, Développements récents en droit de l’expropriation (2020), Vol. 481. Montréal: Éditions Yvon Blais, 2020, 93.
Professional memberships
- Canadian Bar Association
Bar admissions & education
- Quebec, 2018
- New York, 2020
- Bachelor of Civil Law and Juris Doctor graduate diploma, Université de Montréal Faculty of Law, 2017
- Certificate in International Chinese Law, China University of Political Science and Law, 2015
- BA Honours in Political Science and Certificate in Business Studies “With Distinction ,” Concordia University, 2013
