The appellant challenged Quebec Labour Court proceedings arising from penal complaints under the Labour Code after a hearing date was reset in Montréal without prior notice while the parties attended at the originally scheduled courthouse in Val d'Or.
The Supreme Court held that setting the date and place of trial was not a purely administrative act and that the Chief Judge's decision and the hearing conducted in the parties' absence breached the audi alteram partem rule.
The Court further held that where nothing is done at the time and place fixed for trial, the tribunal loses jurisdiction over the information.
The appeal was allowed, the Court of Appeal judgment was quashed, and the Superior Court judgment authorizing evocation was restored.
