A Quebec Superior Court justice has strongly criticized a lower court judge's insistence that a Montreal woman, Rania El-Alloul, remove her hijab in order to have her case heard in court.
"The court sympathizes with Ms. El-Alloul and deeply regrets how she was treated," wrote Justice Wilbrod Décarie in a decision released this week.
The remarks represent a rebuke of controversial comments made last year by Quebec Court Judge Eliana Marengo.
During a hearing in February 2015, Marengo told El-Alloul she would not hear her case unless she removed her hijab.
?Marengo contended the courtroom was a secular space and compared the hijab to a hat and sunglasses, which would not normally be allowed in a courtroom. [CBC News] Read more
