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March 20 2007
Gérard Dugré and Ronald Audette successfully represented Royal Bank of Canada before the Quebec Superior Court in the complex Marché Central case. They discuss the history and outcome of the case in Kevin Marron's article, "Divine Intervention? Big box property fraud ends well for nuns", in Canadian Lawyer Magazine (March 2007):

"Now seen as one of Canada's most successful retail property developments, the one-million-square-foot Marché Central is a Mecca of big box stores with its 120-foot tower standing like a minaret beside Montreal's Metropolitan Expressway, drawing millions of consumers from miles around on a bargain hunting pilgrimage.

Few of the shoppers who flock to this retail shrine would likely know or care much about the murky legal history of Quebec's biggest power centre development. But for the past decade, many lawyers in the province and elsewhere in Canada have been keeping an eye on the labyrinth of litigation and fraudulent dealings surrounding the development of the Marché Central..."

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