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21 janvier 2025

Blacksmith c. R.

The trial judge failed to make the connection between the background or systemic factors and the degree of moral culpability of the appellant, a member of the Cree Nation who discharged a firearm in an act of desperation; an 18-month conditional sentence is substituted for t...
17 janvier 2025

A.P. v. Procureur général du Québec

The appellant has failed to establish that section 10, paragraph 4 of the Health Insurance Act, which sets a cap on the reimbursement of medical services received outside Quebec, discriminates against Quebec women that require reproductive health care. ...
16 janvier 2025

Option Consommateurs v. Google

The plaintiff is authorized to institute a class action against Google, alleging that it collected, without prior authorization, information belonging to its members when they used Google services and Google tools and shared that information with third parties. ...
13 janvier 2025

Procureur général du Québec v. Kanyinda

The exclusion in section 3 of the Reduced Contribution Regulation of parents who are refugee claimants staying in Quebec and who hold a work permit from the subsidized childcare program for their children constitutes discrimination based on sex that unjustifiably in...
19 novembre 2024

Tshilumba v. R.

The appellant, who was convicted of first degree murder after stabbing the victim in a Montreal supermarket, must undergo a new trial; the contradictory instructions concerning the appellant’s post-homicide conduct prevented the jury from properly assessing the sequence of e...
18 novembre 2024

Association canadienne du vapotage v. Procureure générale du Québec

Although a more flexible approach seems to be developing in summary dismissal matters, there are many reasons to continue to be cautious with respect to applications for judicial review, a fortiori where the application challenges the constitutionality of certain statutory p...
10 octobre 2024

Autorité des marchés financiers v. Christensen

prohibition against acting as a director or officer of an issuer, dealer, adviser or investment fund manager – undertaking given to the Autorité des marchés financiers – breaches of the Securities Act – admitted breaches – failure to comply with an order – interfere...
8 octobre 2024

Droit de la famille — 24292

The effect of the trial judgment granting the parties’ divorce and ruling on accessory measures seems fair because the husband was liable for an indemnity, while the wife could not reasonably expect to benefit from the increase in value of the immovable without contributing ...
25 septembre 2024

Procureur général du Québec v. Fédération des policiers et policières municipaux du Québec

The trial judge did not err in declaring invalid certain provisions of the Regulation respecting the conduct of the investigations of the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes enacted under the Police Act. ...
20 septembre 2024

R. v. Nimeri

The Court dismisses the application to exclude evidence presented by the accused, who was walking on a downtown Montreal sidewalk with a Glock 19 pistol nestled in his man-purse-type strap bag when he was stopped by the police; the police had sufficient grounds to detain him...
6 septembre 2024

R. v. Deslauriers

A police officer who caused the death of a young man by firing twice in his direction is acquitted of two counts of manslaughter; in the circumstances, he used the necessary and proportionate force to protect himself because he could reasonably believe that the victim was ch...

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