Justice Watch: Judges Martin Gosselin and Joanne Cousineau Face Removal After Illegally Jailing People over Unpaid Tickets
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Justice Watch: Judges Martin Gosselin and Joanne Cousineau face removal after illegally jailing people over unpaid tickets
Subhead:Over 1,100 people were impacted by the illegally issued warrants between June 2020 and December 2022.# Two Quebec municipal court judges could be removed from the bench after a judicial inquiry found they illegally authorized 1,669 imprisonment warrants against people who failed to pay fines. In an unusually severe report, an inquiry committee of Quebec’s Conseil de la magistrature recommended the removal of Gatineau municipal court ju…
Two Gatineau judges who "completely ignored" the law by allowing the imprisonment of hundreds of people for unpaid violations are at risk of dismissal. A "judicial waste," according to the Conseil de la magistrature du Québec.
The Judicial Council's Investigation Committee recommends that judges Martin Gosselin and Joanne Cousineau be dismissed.
Two judges of the Gatineau Municipal Court are in the hot water. The Judicial Council's Committee of Inquiry concludes that they have committed serious misconduct. The committee recommends the removal of Justices Martin Gosselin and Joanne Cousineau. Between 2020 and 2022, they authorized 1,669 terms of imprisonment for 1,126 persons for unpaid fines. The committee accuses them of having issued these warrants without verifying the files or deman…
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