Federal Court rules Official Languages Act does not require SCC to translate pre-1970 judgments

By Cristin Schmitz ( June 4, 2026, 2:18 PM EDT) -- A New Brunswick Court of Appeal judge, seconded to the Federal Court for a sensitive and potentially far-reaching court case against the Supreme Court of Canada’s registry, has ruled that the top court was not in breach of the federal Official Languages Act (OLA) when it posted on its website its untranslated pre-1970 judgments in their original languages, nor does the statute oblige the top court to translate thousands of historical judgments into both official languages....
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