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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.

Fonds d'aide aux actions collectives c. Ticketmaster Canada Ltd.

Class action - execution measures - balance - distribution - Fonds d’aide aux actions collectives - withholding - calculation

Carrefour St-Romuald inc. c. L'Intendant inc.

Civil procedure - exception to dismiss - abuse of procedure - cross-application - action in warranty - case management

Droit de la famille — 26429

Family – variation order – spousal support order – separation agreement – support order

R. c. Giroux

Criminal - arrest - right to counsel - exercise of the right - cellphone - first reasonable opportunity

Girouard c. R.

Criminal – judge’s instructions to the jury – absence of instructions on the limited use of the appellant’s silence – murder – defence of mental…

Immeubles Redbourne South Shore inc. c. Soutex inc.

Lease – commercial lease – administrative office – pandemic – COVID-19 –public health emergency – force majeure – partial enjoyment of the premises

Procureur général du Québec c. Metellus

Class action - taxi owner’s permit - arrival of Uber - deregulation of the taxi industry - damages

Jetté-Corson c. R.

Criminal – sexual assault – section 272(1)(d) Cr. C. – mistake of age defence – reasonable steps to ascertain the age of the victim

Succession de Mergl c. Agence du revenu du Québec

Taxation - undeclared income – benefit conferred on a shareholder - scheme - false invoices - burden of proof - tax assessment

Benamor c. Lipman (Souscripteurs du Lloyd's)

Insurance – Wellington-type motion – judgment rendered in the course of proceedings – suspension of proceedings – insurance policy – validity

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).

 

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