Le juge Wells a rejeté les demandes du directeur de la protection de l’enfance ; il a retenu, dans ses propres termes, que le sang « [had] not been demonstrated to be essential » et « could be harmful » dans les circonstances, et il a déclaré que le garçon était un mineur mature dont le souhait d’être soigné sans sang devait être respecté ; la Cour suprême du Canada a résumé plus tard cette même décision, publiée sous la référence Re A.Y. (1993), 111 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 91, et a rapporté que le juge Wells avait relevé que le traitement avait moins de quarante pour cent de chances d’être efficace, qu’il n’était pas « essential » et qu’il était contraire aux souhaits de l’adolescent mature.

Claim ID claim-blood-1994-yeatts-court-findingsConcerns 19 juillet 1993Contexte

Contexte · 19 juillet 1993 Vérifié

Le juge Wells a rejeté les demandes du directeur de la protection de l’enfance ; il a retenu, dans ses propres termes, que le sang « [had] not been demonstrated to be essential » et « could be harmful » dans les circonstances, et il a déclaré que le garçon était un mineur mature dont le souhait d’être soigné sans sang devait être respecté ; la Cour suprême du Canada a résumé plus tard cette même décision, publiée sous la référence Re A.Y. (1993), 111 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 91, et a rapporté que le juge Wells avait relevé que le traitement avait moins de quarante pour cent de chances d’être efficace, qu’il n’était pas « essential » et qu’il était contraire aux souhaits de l’adolescent mature. Source: Awake!, 22 mai 1994 Source: Supreme Court of Canada, 26 juin 2009

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : L’organisation cite des décisions de ce genre comme une justification de la conscience et des droits de l’enfant, une présentation qu’elle a rendue explicite dans l’article complémentaire de 1995.

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Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

Awake!, “He ‘Remembered His Creator in the Days of His Youth’”

22 mai 1994 · pp.6-8 · pars. 29-37 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

“For the following reasons, the applications of the Director of Child Welfare are dismissed; the child is not in need of protection; the use of blood or blood products for the purposes of blood transfusion or injection have not been demonstrated to be essential, and in the particular circumstances of this case, could be harmful.”

The article prints extracts from the decision of Wells J of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, given on Monday 19 July 1993, and states that the decision was later published in the Human Rights Law Journal of 30 September 1993. Further extracts record the judge’s findings that the boy was ‘mature beyond any normal expectation’ and that forcing treatment on him would drastically reduce his suitability for that treatment.

Source officielle (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.

Corroboré par. src-g-1994-0522-remembered-creator, src-g94d-scc-ac-paras-62-63

Notes. The judgment is reported as Re A.Y. (1993), 111 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 91 (Nfld. S.C.); the Human Rights Law Journal printing cited by the magazine was not opened.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-g94d-yeatts-wells-decision

Document public officiel Vérifié

Supreme Court of Canada, “A.C. v. Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services), 2009 SCC 30, [2009] 2 S.C.R. 181”

26 juin 2009 · pp.[2009] 2 S.C.R. 181 at 221-222 · paras. 62-63 (and para. 128 per McLachlin CJ) · Abella J · Supreme Court of Canada

“In Re L.D.K. (1985), 48 R.F.L. (2d) 164 (Ont. Prov. Ct. (Fam. Div.)), for example, the patient was a 12-year-old girl suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia. … In Re A.Y. (1993), 111 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 91 (Nfld. S.C.), the court was faced with an application from the Director of Child Welfare to impose treatment on a 15-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who had cancer.”

The Supreme Court of Canada’s own summary of the two Canadian decisions described in the 22 May 1994 Awake!. Of Re L.D.K. the Court records that two doctors put the odds of a favourable outcome at around 30 per cent, that Main Prov. Ct. J. found ‘the emotional trauma [the child] would experience’ in forced treatment would outweigh the anticipated benefits (p. 169), and that he concluded ‘[T]his child’s life is equally in danger whichever path is taken’ (p. 170). Of Re A.Y. it records that Wells J noted the treatment was less than 40 per cent likely to be effective, was not ‘essential’, and was contrary to the mature adolescent’s wishes, so that he was not a child in need of protection. At para. 128 the Chief Justice describes the same boy as ‘a 15-year-old boy suffering from terminal cancer’.

Source officielle (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. The official Supreme Court of Canada PDF of the judgment was downloaded from decisions.scc-csc.ca (with a Referer header, since the file otherwise returns 403), converted to text with pdftotext and read; paragraphs 62, 63 and 128 were confirmed word for word.

Corroboré par. src-g94d-kosack-judgment, src-g94d-yeatts-wells-decision

Notes. This is the best available confirmation of the citations for the Kosack and Yeatts proceedings. Neither law report was opened directly; CanLII is bot-blocked in this environment.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-g94d-scc-ac-paras-62-63

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L’affirmation et ses preuves

Awake!, “He ‘Remembered His Creator in the Days of His Youth’”

Supreme Court of Canada, “A.C. v. Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services), 2009 SCC 30, [2009] 2 S.C.R. 181”