Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal from media over Quebec secret trial
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 Thursday 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 sought a partial or complete lifting of seals imposed on the case.In July, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled it could not release any information, saying the right of informants to remain anonymous supercedes the principle of court proceedings being open to the public.
The original case involved an informant who was convicted of participating in a crime that he or she had revealed to police.Quebec media pen letter denouncing criminal trial held in secret, kept off court docket The existence of the trial was first reported by La Presse and only became public because the informant appealed his or her conviction and because the Court of Appeal in March 2022 released a redacted decision that set aside the conviction and was highly critical of the secrecy surrounding the trial.
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