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JUDGMENT IN APPEAL

 

May 24, 2019

For immediate release

 

OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has today deposited with the Registrar judgment in the following appeal.

 

The reasons for judgment will be available shortly.

 

 

JUGEMENT SUR APPEL

 

Le 24 mai 2019

Pour diffusion immédiate

 

OTTAWA – La Cour suprême du Canada a déposé aujourd’hui auprès du registraire le jugement dans l'appel suivant.

 

Les motifs de jugement seront disponibles sous peu.

 

 

 


37769                    Bradley David Barton v. Her Majesty The Queen - and - Attorney General of Canada, Attorney General of Ontario, Attorney General of Manitoba, Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions, Vancouver Rape Relief Society, La Concertation des luttes contre l’exploitation sexuelle, AWCEP Asian Women for Equality Society, Aboriginal Women’s Action Network, Formerly Exploited Voices Now Educating, Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation, Assembly of First Nations, Ad Idem / Canadian Media Lawyers Association, Women of the Métis Nation / Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Independent Criminal Defence Advocacy Society, Criminal Lawyers’ Association of Ontario, Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund Inc., David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, Aboriginal Legal Services and Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association (Alberta) (Alta.)

2019 SCC 33 / 2019 CSC 33

 

Coram:                    Wagner C.J. and Abella, Moldaver, Karakatsanis, Côté, Brown and Rowe JJ.

 

The appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Alberta (Edmonton), Number 1503-0091-A, 2017 ABCA 216, dated June 30, 2017, heard on October 11, 2018, is allowed in part and a new trial on unlawful act manslaughter is ordered. Wagner C.J. and Abella and Karakatsanis JJ. dissent in part.

 

L’appel interjeté contre l’arrêt de la Cour d’appel de l’Alberta (Edmonton), numéro 1503-0091-A, 2017 ABCA 216, daté du 30 juin 2017, entendu le 11 octobre 2018, est accueilli en partie et la tenue d’un nouveau procès pour homicide involontaire coupable résultant d’un acte illégal est ordonnée. Le juge en chef Wagner et les juges Abella et Karakatsanis sont dissidents en partie.

 

 

 

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