Quebec Court Of Appeal

• Actors can smoke on stage, Quebec Court of Appeal rules

  The province’s highest court upheld a lower-court decision that had struck down fines issued to three theatres for allowing performers to smoke during plays.

  Canada

  Apr 24
  
• Guatemalan man’s estate entitled to redress after court says death was linked to work

  Quebec's Court of Appeal has ruled the family of a Guatemalan farm worker crushed to death in 2021 trying to repair a flat tire on his employer’s car is entitled to compensation.

  Canada

  Aug 8, 2025
  
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• Quebec police can refuse to talk to watchdog, province’s top court says

  In a unanimous decision, Quebec's Court of Appeal panel ruled that officers cannot be forced to provide documents that could incriminate them to the watchdog.

  Canada

  May 2, 2024
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• Appeal court orders new trial for former senior Montreal politician Zampino

  The charges against the former right-hand man to Gérald Tremblay, who was mayor from 2001 to 2012, allege that municipal contracts were awarded in exchange for political donations.

  Crime

  Oct 20, 2023
• MK-ULTRA mind-control experiments: Quebec high court says U.S. has immunity in Canada

  The proposed class-action lawsuit is about MK-ULTRA – allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the CIA between the 1940s and 1960s at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2023
• Quebec’s top court overturns stay granted to retired judge in wife’s killing

  The province's highest court has ordered that the case against Jacques Delisle return to Quebec Superior Court, where he had been facing a second trial.

  Canada

  Sep 6, 2023
• Facebook class action gets green light after Supreme Court declines to hear appeal

  Audrey Boctor, one of the lawyers behind the suit, said the top court's ruling means the case can now move toward an eventual trial.

  Canada

  Sep 5, 2023
• Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of ex-construction boss Tony Accurso convicted of corruption

  Tony Accurso was sentenced in 2018 in what a Quebec judge called one of the worst examples of municipal corruption to come before a Canadian court.

  Canada

  Jul 27, 2023
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• Quebec judge denies request to appeal decision maintaining school prayer space ban

  The groups had been seeking to have the prayer ban suspended by the Quebec Court of Appeal until their court challenge could be heard in full.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2023
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• Quebec school prayer ban: Groups seek permission to appeal court ruling

  In June, a Quebec Superior Court judge refused to suspend the ban, which forbids schools from making any space available on school grounds for students to pray overtly.

  Canada

  Jul 24, 2023