Supreme Court removes all unilingual decisions from its website [Video]

The Supreme Court may have succeeded in sidestepping the request from Droits collectifs Québec (DCQ), which had dragged its registrar before the Federal Court to compel the translation into French of some 6,000 decisions made before 1969 that were only available in English.

On Friday, the Registrar’s Office of the Supreme Court announced that it would remove all the court’s decisions that are not in both official languages from the court’s website, and that translation of some of these decisions will begin in 2025.

“From now on, only translated judgments will be available online through the court’s website. Those wishing to access the full set of court decisions, including those rendered before 1970, can consult online databases available to all,” the Registrar’s Office said in a press release.