Class Action against Attorney General of Québec for Unlawfully Detained Persons
Update: September 5, 2024 – Filing of Class Action
On September 5, 2024, following the Superior Court of Québec’s authorization of a class action filed by Kugler Kandestin LLP and Coupal Chauvelot S.A. against the Attorney General of Québec for persons who were unlawfully detained in Québec, we filed the class action lawsuit (available in French only) with the Court.
The class action is for the benefit of the following group of people:
“All persons in Quebec who have been unlawfully detained, either on the basis of a document that does not comply with a court order, or at the end of a prison term, or after a court ordered their release, including but not limited to persons identified in the Attorney General of Quebec’s register of unlawfully detained persons.” [Translation]
You can access further details about this class action by consulting the full-length Notice to members and the abridged Notice to members approved by the Court.
The Notice to class members of the approval judgment will be published in the newspapers on May 10, 2025.
The lawyers who handled this case on behalf of the class members are:
| Robert Kugler Alexandre Brosseau-Wery Éva Richard Kugler Kandestin LLP 1, Place Ville Marie, Suite 1170 Montréal, Québec H3B 2A7 | Victor Chauvelot Louis-Nicholas Coupal Coupal Chauvelot S.A. 501-4, Notre-Dame Street East Montréal, Québec H2Y 1B8 |
You may contact the lawyers who handled this class action for free by telephone at 514-903-3390 or 514-878-2861 or by email at victor@coupalchauvelot.com or info@kklex.com.
We are very pleased to announce that the Superior Court of Québec has rendered a judgment authorizing the class action filed by Kugler Kandestin LLP and Coupal Chauvelot S.A. against the Attorney General of Québec for persons who were unlawfully detained in Québec.
The class action is for the benefit of the following group of people:
“All persons in Quebec who have been unlawfully detained, either on the basis of a document that does not comply with a court order, or at the end of a prison term, or after a court ordered their release, including but not limited to persons identified in the Attorney General of Quebec’s register of unlawfully detained persons. [Translation]”
Kugler Kandestin and Coupal Chauvelot have jointly filed an Application for Authorization to Institute a Class Action against the Attorney General of Québec for persons who were unlawfully detained in Québec.