{"id":22113,"date":"2020-10-08T07:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/case_summary\/r-v-sullivan-1991\/"},"modified":"2021-11-25T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T16:02:55","slug":"r-c-sullivan-1991","status":"publish","type":"case_summary","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/case_summary\/r-c-sullivan-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"R. c. Sullivan (1991)\u202f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cette affaire concernait le statut et les droits d\u2019un f\u0153tus partiellement n\u00e9 en vertu des dispositions du Code criminel<\/em> relatives \u00e0 la n\u00e9gligence criminelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le FAEJ, avec l’implication de West Coast FAEJ, est intervenu devant la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mary Sullivan et Gloria Lemay, toutes deux sages-femmes mais sans formation m\u00e9dicale, se sont rendues au domicile d’une m\u00e8re enceinte pour aider \u00e0 la naissance de son premier enfant. Le f\u0153tus qu’ils tentaient d’accoucher est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 alors qu’il \u00e9tait encore dans le canal g\u00e9nital. Apr\u00e8s un proc\u00e8s, ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnus coupables de n\u00e9gligence criminelle ayant caus\u00e9 la mort de le f\u0153tus, mais acquitt\u00e9s de n\u00e9gligence criminelle causant des l\u00e9sions corporelles \u00e0 la m\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mme Sullivan et Mme Lemay ont interjet\u00e9 appel devant la Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique. La Cour a annul\u00e9 leur condamnation pour n\u00e9gligence criminelle causant la mort, mais les a d\u00e9clar\u00e9s coupables de n\u00e9gligence criminelle causant des l\u00e9sions corporelles. Les deux ont interjet\u00e9 appel devant la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argumentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Le FAEJ a soutenu que l\u2019interpr\u00e9tation des dispositions du Code criminel sur la n\u00e9gligence criminelle devait \u00eatre guid\u00e9e par les garanties d\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 des sexes de la Charte et en tenant compte de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience de la femme enceinte. Le FAEJ a soutenu que les f\u0153tus n’\u00e9taient pas des \u00ab personnes \u00bb au sens des dispositions sur la n\u00e9gligence criminelle du Code criminel<\/em>. Au lieu de cela, jusqu’\u00e0 ce qu’ils sortent pleinement \u00e0 l’\u00e9tat de vie du corps de la m\u00e8re, les f\u0153tus \u00e9taient dans et de la femme enceinte. En cons\u00e9quence, la mort du f\u0153tus n\u00e9 \u00e0 terme de la femme enceinte a entra\u00een\u00e9 des l\u00e9sions corporelles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R\u00e9sultat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

La Cour supr\u00eame du Canada a conclu qu’un f\u0153tus n’\u00e9tait pas une \u00ab personne \u00bb au sens des dispositions du Code criminel<\/em> sur la n\u00e9gligence criminelle. En cons\u00e9quence, il a confirm\u00e9 les acquittements des deux femmes pour n\u00e9gligence criminelle ayant caus\u00e9 la mort.
La Cour \u00e0 la majorit\u00e9 a \u00e9galement statu\u00e9 que, puisque le minist\u00e8re public n’avait pas interjet\u00e9 appel de l’acquittement initial pour n\u00e9gligence criminelle causant des l\u00e9sions corporelles \u00e0 la m\u00e8re, la Cour d’appel n’aurait pas d\u00fb d\u00e9clarer une d\u00e9claration de culpabilit\u00e9 sur cette accusation. En cons\u00e9quence, la Cour a \u00e9galement acquitt\u00e9 les sages-femmes de cette accusation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le FAEJ remercie Mary Eberts et Lynn Smith, avocates dans cette affaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T\u00e9l\u00e9chargez le m\u00e9moire du FAEJ ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisez la d\u00e9cision de la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nos dossiers sont imparfaits, mais nous faisons de notre mieux pour les mettre \u00e0 jour – si vous \u00e9tiez impliqu\u00e9 avec le FAEJ dans cette affaire mais que votre nom n’appara\u00eet pas ici, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel \u00e0<\/em> info@leaf.ca<\/em><\/a>. <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[539,624,625],"class_list":["post-22113","case_summary","type-case_summary","status-publish","hentry","tag-equality-fr","tag-rights-of-the-fetus-fr","tag-rights-of-the-pregnant-woman-fr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nR. c. 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