R. v. Beaudry, 2019 SCC 2, [2019] 1 SCR 95

  

 

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA

 

Citation: R. v. Beaudry, 2019 SCC 2, [2019] 1 S.C.R. 95

Appeal Heard: January 14, 2019 Judgment Rendered: January 14, 2019 Docket: 38308

 

Between:

Her Majesty The Queen

Applicant

 

and

 

Corporal R.P. Beaudry

Respondent

 

 

 

Coram: Gascon, Côté, Brown, Rowe and Martin JJ.

 

Reasons for Judgment: (paras. 1 to 3)

Gascon J. (Côté, Brown, Rowe and Martin JJ. concurring)

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. v. Beaudry, 2019 SCC 2, [2019] 1 S.C.R. 95

Her Majesty The Queen                                                                                 Applicant

v.

Corporal R.P. Beaudry                                                                               Respondent

Indexed as: R. v. Beaudry

2019 SCC 2

File No.: 38308.

2019: January 14.

Present: Gascon, Côté, Brown, Rowe and Martin JJ.

motion for a stay of a declaration of invalidity

                    Judgments and orders — Stay of execution — Declaration of invalidity — Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada declaring s. 130(1) (a) of the National Defence Act  of no force or effect in its application to any civil offence for which maximum sentence is imprisonment for five years of more — Applicant appealing Court Martial Appeal Court’s judgment and bringing motion to stay declaration of invalidity until final disposition of appeal — Balance of convenience does not favour granting stay — Stay denied — National Defence Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. N-5, s. 130(1) (a).

Cases Cited

                    Referred to: Manitoba (Attorney General) v. Metropolitan Stores Ltd., [1987] 1 S.C.R. 110; RJR — MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 311.

                    MOTION to stay the declaration of invalidity issued by the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada (Bell C.J. and Gagné and Ouellette JJ.A.), 2018 CMAC 4, [2018] C.M.A.J. No. 4 (QL), 2018 CarswellNat 5345 (WL Can.). Motion dismissed.

 

                    Anthony M. Tamburro, Bruce MacGregor and R. Dylan Kerr, for the applicant.

 

                    Mark Létourneau and Jean-Bruno Cloutier, for the respondent.

 

                    The order of the Court was delivered orally by

 

[1]                              Gascon J. — We are all of the view that the Crown’s motion to stay the declaration of invalidity in the Court Martial Appeal Court judgment of September 19, 2018, should be dismissed.

 

[2]                              The applicable criteria set out in Manitoba (Attorney General) v. Metropolitan Stores Ltd., [1987] 1 S.C.R. 110, and RJR — MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 311, are not in dispute. The Crown has failed in our view to establish that the balance of convenience favours granting the stay sought.

 

[3]                              The motion is therefore dismissed.

 

                    Order accordingly.

 

                    Solicitor for the applicant: Canadian Military Prosecution Service, Ottawa.

 

                    Solicitor for the respondent: Defence Counsel Services, Gatineau.