The Quebec Court judge who refused to hear the case of a woman unless she removed her hijab in the courtroom has lost her latest bid to try to quash a disciplinary investigation into her conduct.
That means more than three years after Judge Eliana Marengo told Rania El-Alloul to remove her hijab, an investigation by a special committee of the Quebec Council of the Magistrature can begin at last.
Marengo tried toblock that investigation in court, arguing the council didn’t have proper jurisdiction to investigate.
In a decision last Thursday, the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that the council’s special committee does indeed have jurisdiction to look into complaints filed against Marengo.