BPC Bulletin: Canada's High Court Rejects Appeal in Horror Novel Dispute
News Reports and Commentary Selected by Franklin Carter of the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee.
The Supreme Court of Canada declined on April 22 to hear an appeal in the case of Yvan Godbout, a fiction author in Quebec.
In 2020, Quebec’s Superior Court acquitted Godbout of writing child pornography in his horror novel, Hansel et Gretel.
REPORTAGE
Morgan Lowrie of the Canadian Press reports:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7780206/supreme-court-quebec-author-novel-child-pornography/
Pierre Saint-Arnaud of la Presse Canadienne reports:
September 2020
Morgan Lowrie of the Canadian Press reports:
Thanks go to Charles Montpetit who forwarded the news.
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