Question juridique clé
Whether the challenge to the fee awarded to appointed counsel remained justiciable after the underlying judgment was annulled
Solution extraite
No. Because the judgment setting the fee had been annulled in the parallel federal appeal, the present matter had become moot and had to be removed from the docket.
Motifs extraits
The contested fee was linked to the annulled judgment of 21 February 2008. Once that judgment was set aside and the case remanded, there was no longer a live object for review.