2018 QCCA 1609, 2018 QCCA 1609

Light c. R. 2018 QCCA 1609 COURT OF APPEAL CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC REGISTRY OF MONTREAL No: 500-10-004643-100 (500-01-011487-060) MINUTES OF THE HEARING DATE: October 1, 2018 THE HONOURABLE NICHOLAS KASIRER, J.A. PETITIONER VINCENT GREGORY LIGHT IN PERSON RESPONDENT COUNSEL HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Mtre william lemay (Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales) DESCRIPTION: Application to re-open the case. Clerk: Mihary Andrianaivo Courtroom: RC.18

HEARING 10:14 Commencement of the hearing. Comments by the Judge. 10:15 Submissions by Mr. Vincent Gregory Light. 10:22 Submissions by Mtre William Lemay. 10:23 Rebuttal by Mr. Vincent Gregory Light. 10:26 BY THE JUDGE: The judgment would be rendered at some point today, and since the Petitioner has no email address, he is invited to collect a copy of the said judgment from the Registry desk, on Wednesday 3 October 2018. 10:27 Recess. 16:19 Resumption of the hearing. BY THE JUDGE: Judgment – See page 3. End of the hearing.

Mihary Andrianaivo Clerk BY THE JUDGE JUDGMENT [ 1 ] Vincent Gregory Light, who represents himself before me, has filed a one-page motion in which he asks the Court of Appeal to “hear my case and re-open it to clear my name. To get back what was wrongfully taken away [from] me”. He also asks for $25 million in damages. [ 2 ] Mr.

Light has attached a judgment to his motion, rendered on April 28, 2010 by my colleague Duval Hesler, J.A., as she then was, which dismissed his motion to extend the time limit to appeal a judgment rendered by the Court of Québec on December 11, 2008. [ 3 ] The jurisdiction of a judge in chambers, and the relief he or she can provide any litigant, is limited by law. [ 4 ] The judgment of Duval Hesler, J.A. is not susceptible of leave to appeal in this Court.

I have no jurisdiction to grant the leave that another judge in chambers has refused. [ 5 ] If one were to interpret the motion as a motion seeking revocation of that judgment, I am of the view that the the petitioner has disclosed no grounds to revoke the judgment of Duval Hesler, J.A. The judgment was not rendered in the absence of Mr. Light and it in no way brings the administration of justice into disrepute. Moreover, it suffers from no apparent weakness or flaw. [ 6 ] Finally, I note that if Mr.

Light is of the view that the prosecution or some other person committed a civil wrong entitling him to damages, a judge sitting alone in this Court has no power to grant him that remedy or to authorize proceedings directly before this Court to that end. [ 7 ] Mr. Light stated his case in a dignified manner. He is plainly a person who feels aggrieved by his treatment before the courts. Respectfully stated, however, a judge in chambers of this Court cannot provide him with the relief he seeks. [ 8 ] FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS , the undersigned:

[ 9 ] DISMISSES the motion. NICHOLAS KASIRER , J.A.