Jérémy Gabriel’s mother claimed $84,600 from the comedian for defamation, but her appeal was rejected by the Court of Quebec in June 2022 due to the prescribed filing deadline. The woman thus pleaded her case before the Court of Appeal of Quebec on November 21, 2023, which was also rejected in January 2024 by the Court of Appeal, which judged the request to be “inadmissible” due to the fact that the defamation action is time-barred.
Ms. Gabriel appealed to the Supreme Court in order to be heard. The recent decision of the highest court in the country therefore puts an end to this long legal saga.
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The young artist also filed a lawsuit against Mike Ward for $288,000. He finally dropped it in May 2023. “I no longer want to talk about this story. I want to move on to something else,” he confided.
This legal saga began in 2015 with a complaint filed before the Commission on Human Rights and Youth Rights which ordered Mike Ward to pay $35,000 in damages to Jérémy Gabriel and $7,000 to his mother, Sylvie. .
In 2019, the Court of Appeal upheld this judgment, while eliminating the amount awarded to the mother. The case then went to the highest court in the country, the Supreme Court, which invalidated everything. “The decisions of the Tribunal, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada therefore relate to the merits of the discrimination action and not to a question of a procedural or technical nature, even if it is true that in in this case, this distinction cannot be held,” we read in the decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal rendered on January 8, 2024.
Since his birth in 1996, Jérémy Gabriel has suffered from Treacher Collins syndrome, a congenital disease characterized by head malformations and severe deafness.
With information from Guillaume Théroux, Julien Denis and Marie-Michelle Lauzon for Noovo Info
