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Judgments Rendered by the Court of Appeal

Selection of Judgments of Interest

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Most of the judgments rendered by the Quebec Court of Appeal since January 1, 1986 are available free of charge on the website of the Société québécoise d’information juridique (SOQUIJ) and that of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII).

A number of older cases are also available free of charge on CanLII.

Below is a selection of judgments of interest rendered by the Court of Appeal.

Summaries of judgments
The judgment summaries set out below have been prepared by SOQUIJ.

R. c. Côté-Vachon

Criminal Law – sexual assault – mistreatment of a vulnerable person – inapplicability of s. 718.04 of the Criminal Code

Choi c. R.

Criminal law – electronic document – ​​presumption of reliability – proper functioning of the system – IP address – direct evidence – circumstantial…

Grégoire c. Services aux entreprises LC inc.

Liability – service for the dissolution of a legal entity – reserved act – unlawful practice – duty of good faith – bar to a claim (inadmissibility)

Couillard c. Shen

Property – divided co-ownership – acquisitive prescription – a portion of an adjacent private portion – application of articles 1049 and 1100 of the…

Labranche c. R.

Criminal law – carrying a weapon for a dangerous purpose – *mens rea* – defensive intent – ​​inevitability of the attack – harassment – ​​reasonable…

Syndic de la Succession d'Imbeault

Bankruptcy – immovable – true owner – simulation – counter letter – enforceability – trustee – creditors’ representative – third persons in good faith

Lacroix c. Bégin

Class action – victim – sexual assault – transaction – individual recovery – voluntary intervention – theoretical question

Restaurant Brands International Inc. c. Deschâtelets

Class action – authorization – contest accessory to a sale – email informing participant that he had won a prize – guarantee of conformity

Bourbonnais-Rougeau c. R.

Criminal – failure to stop after accident – obligation to give name and address – reasonable excuse – burden of proof

LSJPA — 2642

Criminal – sexual offences – inadmissibility of consent of a victim under 16 years of age – similar age exception – constitutionality

Translation of Judgments

Some Court of Appeal judgments are translated.

That said, a party is entitled to have their judgment translated at no cost, whether the translation is from French to English or English to French.

Most of these translations are available free of charge on the website of the Société québécoise d’information juridique (SOQUIJ) and that of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII).