Quebec Superior Court

• Quebec court authorizes temporary foreign worker class action on closed permits

  The lawsuit argues that closed permits for temporary foreign workers in Canada violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

  Canada

  Sep 16
  
• Université du Québec à Montréal seeking injunction against pro-Palestinian encampment

  UQAM is asking the Quebec Superior Court to prohibit protesters from setting up tents and other material within three metres of campus buildings.

  Canada

  May 23
  
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• English school board calls judge’s stay on parts of Quebec language law a ‘win’

  A Quebec Superior Court judge has stayed sections of Bill 96 requiring English school boards to communicate in French even when working with other English-speaking institutions.

  Apr 18
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• Quebec court approves class action alleging opioid makers misled users about risks

  The class action includes everyone in Quebec who was diagnosed with opioid use disorder after being prescribed opioid medications between 1996 and the present.

  Health

  Apr 16
• Quebec environmental group denied court injunction against Northvolt EV battery plant

  A Quebec Superior Court judge has refused to grant an injunction to halt tree cutting and other preparatory work at the site of a future EV facility southeast of Montreal.

  Environment

  Jan 26
• Mohawk Mothers step up legal fight in search for unmarked graves at former Montreal hospital site

  A Quebec's Superior Court judge will hear a motion Thursday filed by a group of Indigenous women to stop new excavation work being done on the former Royal Victoria Hospital site.

  Canada

  Sep 13, 2023
• Settlement reached in sex-assault lawsuit against Quebec religious order

  Under the settlement announced Monday, a fund of between $9.4 million and $26.9 million will be made available to victims for assaults committed since 1940.

  Crime

  Sep 11, 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
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• Court rules Montreal-area city can cull white-tailed deer population in local park

  The ruling is the latest in a saga that has seen animal rights groups fight in court to block the cull, arguing that control methods should favour keeping the animals alive.

  Environment

  Aug 31, 2023
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• Quebec court says it can hear challenge to governor general’s lack of French

  Groups are seeking to have Simon's appointment declared null and void because they say the governor general is constitutionally required to communicate in both official languages.

  Politics

  Aug 9, 2023