An aspiring lawyer who had been seen laughing with a thong as a mask during the influencer party in Tulum has just filed a civil lawsuit once morest the Bar, which she accuses of delaying too much to allow her to exercise her profession.
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“If the Bar Association’s refusal or negligence to act were to continue any longer, this would potentially jeopardize its hard-won right to access the legal profession,” said Frédérique Dumas-Joyal in an appeal made public on Monday. , to Montreal.
Mme Dumas-Joyal made headlines earlier this year when she took part in the flight aboard a Sunwing aircraft. On this chartered trip to Tulum, Mexico, several influencers were seen breaking several rules, whether drinking alcohol or vaping in flight.
Photo taken from the Instagram account of Frédérique Dumas-Joyal
“The trip took an unexpected turn and was then the subject of a media crisis”, soberly indicates Frédérique Dumas-Joyal.
Fired
But if the latter has made the headlines, it is because of a short online video, in Tulum, where we see her with a red thong as a mask.
“A pina colada,” she says, laughing, leaning in a bar in Tulum.
This video went around the web and even cost him his job at the Autorité des marchés financiers [AMF]who did not laugh.
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The dismissal of M.me Dumas-Joyal, however, had a consequence that she did not imagine. Because while she was freshly graduated from the Bar School, it was the AMF that had to pay her dues, which does not seem to have been done.
And since she had changed her Instagram bio from “future lawyer” to “attorney”, it caused her problems. She then fixed the situation, but at the time of the lawsuit, she was still not listed on the Roll of the Order, so she still cannot practice.
Considering this to be an injustice, she therefore filed a lawsuit.
