MONTREAL — A committee of the Canadian Judicial Council recommended in a report released Monday that Michel Girouard be removed from his position as a Quebec Superior Court justice for misconduct and failing to perform his duties in office. In April 2016, the judicial council ruled Girouard could return to sit as a judge despite the council’s own inquiry committee recommending he be removed from office months earlier. The council said it would consider its committee’s report and give Girouard the chance to make written submissions. After that, the council said it would make a final recommendation on Girouard’s fate to the federal justice minister. Girouard was named to Superior Court in September 2010 after practising law for a quarter-century in the Abitibi region in northwestern Quebec.

Source: National Post November 06, 2017 20:26 UTC