The appellant, a francophone, was charged alongside anglophone co-accused.
A bilingual preliminary inquiry was held.
The Crown assigned unilingual anglophone prosecutors, provided English-only disclosure and notices, and the court refused to provide a bilingual court reporter or issue interlocutory judgments in French.
The certiorari judge found language rights violations but denied a remedy.
The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal, finding systemic failure by the Crown and the preliminary inquiry judge to respect the equality of official languages.
The committal for trial was quashed and costs were awarded to the appellant.
