10 juillet 2025
R. v. Ouellet
A new trial must be ordered because of the inadequacy of reasons with respect to the three incidents of sexual assault and, for an additional ground with respect to the second incident, because the judge erred in law by drawing a key finding of fact in the absence of evidenc...
2 juillet 2025
Arrangement relatif à NMX Residual Assets Inc.
The Court grants the applications to dismiss of the directors and officers of the former debtors and of their insurer; the shareholders and creditors of the former debtors did not establish that they committed a fault within the meaning of the exception set out in section 5....
30 juin 2025
Procureur général du Québec v. Luamba
Section 636 of the Highway Safety Code, which authorizes traffic stops with no required grounds outside of an organized program, results in racial profiling; this provision breaches sections 9 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is not...
20 juin 2025
Niu v. American Cinema Inspires Inc.
The trial judge did not err in recognizing and declaring enforceable a judgment rendered by default by a court in the State of Arizona ordering the appellant to pay $111,636 in connection with the illegal dissemination on the Internet of one of the respondents’ motion pictur...
20 juin 2025
Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (E.B.) v. 9302-6573 Québec inc. (Bar Lucky 7)
The defendants’ refusal to hire the complainant because she identified as a trans woman is an exclusion or distinction based on an enumerated ground in section 10 of the Charter of human rights and freedoms.
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19 juin 2025
N.G. v. McGill University Health Center
The applicant is not granted a stay of execution of the judgment rendered by the Court dismissing her appeal from a judgment authorizing the respondent to implement a care plan for her brother; she did not establish that the 3 conditions for obtaining a stay were met, and th...
19 juin 2025
Droit de la famille — 241779
The trial judge did not err in refusing to cancel the spousal support; in particular, she did not err in dismissing the argument that an agreement providing for the payment of support for life would be contrary to public order.
17 juin 2025
N.G. v. McGill University Health Centre
The trial judge did not err in authorizing a hospital to discontinue life-sustaining treatment provided to a patient in a vegetative state and replacing it with palliative care until his death; the decision made by the patient’s sister refusing the care plan is unjustified, ...
17 juin 2025
R. v. Fera
The Court confirms the acquittal of Ernesto Fera, who was charged with the first-degree murder of his wife; the prosecution proposes that the Court completely reassess the evidence, without however being able to establish that the trial judge committed a single error of law....
16 juin 2025
Droit de la famille — 241524
Leave to appeal is not granted to the applicant with respect to breach of procedure under article 342 C.C.P., as the question raised pertained solely to the trial judge’s application of this provision to the circumstances of the case.
16 juin 2025
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (St. Mary's Hospital Center) v. R.C.
In the context of an application for authorization of treatment, the evidence did not allow the trial judge to find that the respondent was capable of consenting to or refusing the proposed treatment plan; the file is referred back to the Superior Court to rule on whether th...
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