Collective action against Dominicans is permitted

After being rejected in 2023, the application for collective action against the Order of Preachers (or the Dominicans) has just been authorized by three judges of the Court of Appeal of Quebec. In June 2022, the cabinet of Arsenault Dufresne Wee Avocats filed an application for collective action against "the Order of Dominicans or Preachers" for sexual assaults allegedly committed by two of its members. The best-known Dominican was Father Benoît…