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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.

Keuylian c. 9465812 Canada limitée

Labour – union activity – reprisals – presumption – other just and sufficient cause – harassment – pretext – judicial review

Durocher c. R.

Criminal – impaired driving with a blood alcohol level exceeding the legal limit causing death – causal link – expert witness – retrial

Ville de Montréal c. Gestion Tasa inc.

Civil procedure – stay of proceedings – contempt of court – unreasonable delay – inapplicability of Jordan

Municipalité de Deschambault-Grondines c. Delisle

Municipal — zoning by-law — agricultural zone — tourist accommodation — non-conforming use — absence of acquired right — declaratory judgment

Claing c. R.

Criminal – distribution of child pornography – minimum sentence – unconstitutionality – intellectual disability – substitution of sentence

Société Radio-Canada c. Association des réalisateurs

Labour - grievance - procedure – court openness - identity of witnesses - harassment - internal investigation - privacy - complaint mechanism

Boulevard Acquisition Corp. c. Bank of Montreal

Expropriation - hypothec - swap agreement - termination payment - advance repayment - section 53.16 of the Expropriation Act

Rahme c. Ville de Laval

Criminal – driving offences – distractions while driving – use of a hands-free device – holding telephone in hand – Section 443.1 of the Highway…

M.L. c. R.

Criminal – victim’s credibility – number of assaults – statement to police – refreshed memory – reasons – incest

Laforce c. Ville de Québec

Municipal – liability – police officer – protestor – extinctive prescription – section 586 of the Cities and Towns Act – class action

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).