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Judgments rendered by the Court of Appeal

Selection of Judgments

Looking for a judgment?

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 recent judgments rendered by the Court of Appeal.

Krumer c. Ville de Beauharnois

Procedure – application for leave to appeal – nature of a judgment denying an application to dismiss based on abuse of process (art. 52 C.C.P.)

A.P. c. Procureur général du Québec

Social - health insurance - reimbursement - services outside Quebec - section 10 para. 4 of the Health Insurance Act - validity - discrimination

Casavant c. R.

Criminal – sentence – sexual assault – abuse of trust – consequences for the victim – substitution of sentence – conditional sentence

2177 23rd Avenue Holdings c. Pival International inc.

Lease - commercial lease - option to renew - offer to contract - art. 1388 CCQ – duty to act in good faith

Blanchard c. R.

Criminal – jury trial – judge’s instructions to the jury – reasonable doubt – testimony of the accused – defence – rhetorical questions

Elliott St-Onge c. Municipalité de Saint-Alexis-des-Monts

Labour standards - dismissal not made for good and sufficient cause - termination - creation of position - employee refusal - resignation

R. c. Aubie

Criminal – sentence – sexual assault – objectives of denunciation and deterrence – substitution of sentence – conditional sentence

Koneak c. R.

Criminal – jury trial – judge’s instructions to jury – first degree murder – planned – deliberate – new trial

Lebel c. R.

Criminal – finding of high-risk accused – substantial likelihood of use of violence – brutality of acts – risk of grave harm to others

Republic of India c. CCDM Holdingsbec

International – arbitration award – recognition and enforcement – State Immunity Act – seizure before judgment in the hands of third persons

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).