Translation - these two appeal files relate to the same judgment of the Superior Court, district of Montreal rendered 27 February 2019 and rectified on 11 March 2019, which first rejects the request for a declinatory exception made by the appellant (WTPA) and which grants the request for authorization of a class action against the latter and against the other appellant (WTC), in addition to granting the status of representative to the respondent for the group described below:
- all persons who are or have been Jehovah's Witnesses and who allege to have been sexually assaulted in Quebec, while they are minors, by a person occupying the role of Elder (the subgroup of sexual assault by the Elders)
- all persons who are or have been Jehovah's Witnesses and who allege that they were sexually assaulted in Quebec, when they were underage, by a Jehovah's Witness (the subgroup of sexual assault by Jehovah's Witnesses)
for the reasons of judgment with which Morrisette and Belanger JJ. concurred, the court:
REJECT appeals
(Much thanks Larissa Kaput)