SCC Today: Criminal Law; Sexual Assault; Inadequacy of Trial Judge Reasons

3 Dec 2025 | Oral Judgments, Updates from the SCC

R. v. Ouellet, 2025 SCC 40 (41785) 

There is a publication ban in this case from below. The appeal was heard on Dec. 3, 2025, and the following judgment delivered orally from the bench the same day.

The Chief Justice: “A majority of this Court would dismiss the appeal, substantially for the reasons of the majority of the Court of Appeal concerning the inadequacy of the trial judge’s reasons. Justice Côté, for her part, would have allowed the appeal for the reasons given by the dissenting judge.”