PROFILE

 

Ms. Lida Sara Nouraie works exclusively in the field of criminal and penal law. Through the years, Ms. Nouraie has gained important experience before all courts in relation to criminal and penal accusations of various types.

 

In 2021, the Quebec Bar named her Avocate Émérite (Ad.E.). She also has received recognition on multiple occasions from Lexpert, the Quebec Criminal Defence Lawyers Association (AQAAD), the Montreal Criminal Defence lawyers Association (AADM), the Young Bar Association of Montreal (YBAM) and the Young Chamber of Commerce of Montreal.

 

Over the last few years years, Ms. Nouraie has appeared 10 times before the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also been deeply involved in mega-trials and crimes against the person files (including homicides and sexual assaults).

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Mrs. Nouraie was also the president of the Montreal Criminal Defence Lawyers Association (AADM) between 2019 and 2021. 

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For several years, she acted as legal counsel for the Elizabeth Fry Society of Quebec; a non-profit organization providing assistance to women in need who are already detained, or who face criminal charges. Since the beginning of her mandate, Ms. Nouraie intervened on hundreds of occasions to inform women of their rights in prison, and their civil rights in general.

 

Ms. Nouraie is a lecturer at the University of Quebec in Montreal, and teaches a course where students work on cases of wrongful convictions, mainly in murder cases. She regularly teaches other courses and often acts as a coach for the interuniversity George A. Gale moot competition.

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She is also the president of Project Innocence Quebec, a non-profit organization helping people having been wrongfully convicted.

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EDUCATION

 

University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Bachelor of Law (LL.B)

University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Certificate in Social and Labor Law

 

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES

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Lida Sara Nouraie and Nicholas St-Jacques, « L’héritage de l’arrêt Butler : 15 après la cristallisation du féminisme au sein des infractions d’obscénité et d’indécence », Femmes et Justice, Société Élizabeth Fry du Québec, 2008

 

Lida Sara Nouraie and Nicholas St-Jacques, « La divulgation de la preuve électronique », 23e journée d’étude de l’Association des avocats de la défense de Montréal, April 22, 2010

 

Lida Sara Nouraie and Nicholas St-Jacques, « Conséquences d’une déclaration de culpabilité pour facultés affaiblies », Barreau de Montréal, January 2011

 

Lida Sara Nouraie and Nicholas St-Jacques, « Automatisme » dans JurisClasseur Québec, Droit pénal général, directed by professors Simon Roy et Marie-Pierre Robert, LexisNexis Canada, December 2013

 

Lida Sara Nouraie and Nicholas St-Jacques, « Ouï-dire et déclarations antérieures » dans JurisClasseur Québec, Preuve et procédures pénales, directed by professors Simon Roy et Marie-Pierre Robert and Justice Erick Vanchestein, LexisNexis Canada, December 2014

 

Lida Sara Nouraie, « La trilogie Summers, Clark et Carvery », 28e Journée d’étude présidée par l’Honorable Martin Vauclair, April 23, 2015

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Nicholas St-Jacques and Lida Sara Nouraie, « Certaines expertises propres au droit criminel », chapitre 7 dans Legispratique – L’expertise, sous la direction de la juge Geneviève Cotnam et Isabelle Hudon, Lexis Nexis, 2016

 

ASSOCIATIONS AND COMMITTEES

 

Montreal Criminal Defence lawyers Association (AADM), president (2019-2021), member of the board of directors, 2007-2010, 2016-2021

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Innocence Project Quebec, president and member of board of directors, 2002-

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Quebec Bar, Committee on Women in the Profession, 2016-

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Quebec Bar, Working group on the judicial teatment of sexual assaults, 2017-

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Montreal Bar, sub-committee on disclosure of evidence, 2016-

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Alumni council, Faculty of Political Science and Law, University of Québec in Quebec, 2015-

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Canadian Bar Association

 

Quebec Criminal Defence Lawyers Association (AQAAD)­­, member

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Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC), member of the board of directors, 2009-2014

 

LANGUAGES

 

French, English and Farsi