Category: secret trial

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Appeal From Media Over Quebec Secret Trial

The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear an appeal from the media over a so-called secret trial involving a police informant held in Quebec. The high court said today it has agreed to hear the appeal brought by media organizations including Radio-Canada, La Presse, the Montreal Gazette and The Canadian Press, which had…


Lawyers Ask Quebec Court of Appeal to Shed More Light on Secret Trial

Lawyers for the province’s attorney general, the chief justice of the Quebec court and several media organizations went before the Quebec Court of Appeal Monday to demand details about a secret trial for which there’s no publicly available record. The existence of the trial only became public earlier this year because a police informant accused…