18 mars 2025
Corps de police désigné v. Personnes désignées
Criminal Law — penal procedure — federal procedure
13 mars 2025
Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (Woodley) c. Ville de Laval (Service de police de la Ville de Laval)
The complainant was the victim of racial profiling by 2 police officers, who intercepted the vehicle he was driving solely because he was a Black man driving a car registered in the name of a woman.
12 mars 2025
Nadeau v. R.
The accused, who was convicted of sexual offences, established both the ineffective assistance of his former counsel in his treatment of the issue of the unique characteristics of the accused’s genitals and the importance that this information could have had in assessing the...
25 février 2025
Autorité des marchés financiers v. Tremblay
Considering that the investigation of the Autorité des marchés financiers is ongoing, an extension of the freeze orders is necessary to allow it to bring its proceedings; however, rather than the additional period of 9 months requested, it is reasonable and in the public int...
18 février 2025
Autorité des marchés financiers v. Langford Sharp
In light of the circumstances of this case and the complex transnational aspect of the investigation undertaken by the Autorité des marchés financiers, the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal does not consider the delay of less than five years between the beginning of ...
10 février 2025
Autorité des marchés financiers v. Grégoire
The respondent admitted to having helped a third person to distribute a limited partnership's units to investors and to act as a dealer in this context; the Tribunal imposed an administrative penalty of $23,000 suggested by the parties, which is reasonable.
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7 février 2025
2177 23rd Avenue Holdings v. Pival International inc.
When a renewal clause in a commercial lease provides that, failing agreement on the rent, the renewal option will become null and void, this clause confers at most a right of first refusal, and the court has no other choice but to apply the consequence in the event the parti...
7 février 2025
Nowkawalk v. R.
The trial judge, who rejected a joint submission of the parties, committed an error in principle by failing to consider all the relevant factors in his analysis of the public interest test; the appeal should therefore be allowed and the joint submission, which took into acco...
4 février 2025
Proposition de Fuoco
The trial judge did not err in finding that respondents’ debt, arising from latent defects affecting the immovable purchased from the debtors that were discovered after their proposal and discharge, was not a provable claim; indeed, it did not meet the criterion of “sufficie...
4 février 2025
Koneak v. R.
Given the crucial importance in this case of the question of planning and deliberation as regards the murder, the trial judge should have summarized the relevant evidence regarding these issues in a structured and clear manner, and should have established links with the appl...
31 janvier 2025
Ratt c. R.
The three errors committed by the accused's trial counsel, that is, the failure to prepare his testimony, the failure to call a crucial witness, and the failure to consider the accused's post-offence conduct, establish ineffective assistance; the Court orders a new trial....
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