{"id":11138,"date":"2019-02-16T08:50:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2019-02-16T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T13:50:12","slug":"un-avocat-condamne-personnellement-a-payer-des-depens-gagne-son-appel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/un-avocat-condamne-personnellement-a-payer-des-depens-gagne-son-appel\/","title":{"rendered":"Un avocat condamn\u00e9 personnellement \u00e0 payer des d\u00e9pens gagne son appel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canlii decision mainTitle solexHlZone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2019\/2019onca109\/2019onca109.html\">R. v. Dennis, 2019 ONCA 109<\/a><\/p>\n<p>La Cour d&#8217;appel de l&#8217;Ontario intervient pour annuler la condamnation personnelle d&#8217;un avocat \u00e0 payer des d\u00e9pens. Ce dernier avait demand\u00e9 une remise \u00e0 la derni\u00e8re minute dans un proc\u00e8s criminel sans en avertir pr\u00e9alablement la partie adverse et le juge de premi\u00e8re instance a lui-m\u00eame propos\u00e9 \u00e0 la poursuite de condamner l&#8217;avocat personnellement \u00e0 payer des frais de 500 $.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>La Cour d&#8217;appel reprend alors les principes \u00e9tablis par la Cour supr\u00eame dans\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/fr\/ca\/csc\/doc\/2017\/2017csc26\/2017csc26.html?autocompleteStr=jodoin&amp;autocompletePos=2\">(Dpcp) c. Jodoin :<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<a class=\"paragAnchor\" name=\"par29\"><\/a>29] Il s\u2019ensuit, \u00e0 mon avis, qu\u2019une condamnation personnelle de l\u2019avocat aux d\u00e9pens <strong>ne peut se justifier que de mani\u00e8re exceptionnelle<\/strong>, en pr\u00e9sence d\u2019une atteinte s\u00e9rieuse \u00e0 l\u2019autorit\u00e9 des tribunaux ou d\u2019une entrave grave \u00e0 l\u2019administration de la justice. Ce crit\u00e8re \u00e9lev\u00e9 est respect\u00e9 lorsqu\u2019un tribunal est en pr\u00e9sence d\u2019une proc\u00e9dure mal fond\u00e9e, frivole, dilatoire ou vexatoire, <strong>qui d\u00e9note un abus grave du syst\u00e8me judiciaire ou une inconduite malhonn\u00eate ou malveillante, commis de propos d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9 par l\u2019avocat<\/strong>. Ainsi, un avocat ne peut sciemment utiliser les ressources judiciaires \u00e0 une fin purement dilatoire, dans le seul but de faire obstruction de mani\u00e8re calcul\u00e9e au bon d\u00e9roulement du processus judiciaire.<\/p>\n<p>La Cour d&#8217;appel de l&#8217;Ontario conclut donc que bien que la conduite de l&#8217;avocat ait \u00e9t\u00e9 inacceptable, elle ne justifiait pas une condamnation personnelle aux d\u00e9pens:<\/p>\n<p class=\"AParaNumbering\">[<a class=\"paragAnchor\" name=\"par6\"><\/a>6] Here, the absence of advance notice of the adjournment request was worthy of adverse comment by the court. Whether categorized as inconsiderate or rude, counsel\u2019s conduct cannot be considered acceptable. Indeed, in acknowledgement of this, counsel apologized to both the court and to the Crown prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AParaNumbering\">[<a class=\"paragAnchor\" name=\"par7\"><\/a>7] However, in our view, the exercise of the appeal judge\u2019s discretion was unreasonable and did not meet the threshold for an award of costs against counsel personally. Fundamentally, counsel\u2019s behaviour did not warrant the exceptional remedy of a personal costs order. Presumably in recognition of this, the respondent consented to both the appellant\u2019s request for leave to appeal, and to the appeal itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AParaNumbering\">[<a class=\"paragAnchor\" name=\"par8\"><\/a>8] For these reasons, the appeal is allowed and the costs award is vacated. We see no reason to order costs against the respondent as requested by the appellant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. v. Dennis, 2019 ONCA 109 La Cour d&#8217;appel de l&#8217;Ontario intervient pour annuler la condamnation personnelle d&#8217;un avocat \u00e0 payer des d\u00e9pens. Ce dernier avait demand\u00e9 une remise \u00e0 la derni\u00e8re minute dans un proc\u00e8s criminel sans en avertir pr\u00e9alablement la partie adverse et le juge de premi\u00e8re instance a lui-m\u00eame propos\u00e9 \u00e0 la [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}