Media write letter on secret trial
Quebec media – everyone but QMI – have written an open letter deploring that secret trial which only became known once the verdict was appealed. (This item mentions the open letter but I can’t find a link to it online.)
This piece also reports that neither the Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court nor the Chief Justice of the Cour du Québec knew this trial was being held. Of course, neither did the justice minister, Simon Jolin-Barrette, who’s now deeply in conniptions demanding to know who was involved.
On thinking about it: is a secret trial with no record even a trial at all? A trial is an event with possible consequences. If there are no traces, no record of the charges in legal history, no identification of the main participants, and no known consequences, how can a trial be really said to have occurred?
Kevin 20:29 on 2022-03-30 Permalink
Here is the English version https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/open-letter-phantom-trials-are-unacceptable-quebec-newsroom-leaders-say/wcm/8b54b6ed-4b64-4106-85d5-f329b3315c5c/amp/
Kate 22:38 on 2022-03-30 Permalink
Found the French version here.
H. John 14:54 on 2022-03-31 Permalink
And here is the Court of Appeal’s decision
Kate 16:14 on 2022-03-31 Permalink
Thank you, H. John and Kevin.
(mmm, caviardage!)