Billionaire Robert Miller has filed an appeal of the decision made by a Quebec Superior Court judge last month that authorized a class action lawsuit brought against him by women who allege he paid to have sex with them when they were minors.
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The plaintiffs so far estimate there could be up to 100 girls, who would have been between the ages of 11 and 17, who might have been recruited to have sex with Miller between 1994 and 2006 in downtown Montreal hotels and later at residences in Westmount.
Miller is the founder of Future Electronics, the company he sold in 2023 shortly after Radio-Canada aired a documentary on its show Enquête which featured interviews with women who alleged they were paid and were given gifts in exchange for sex when they were minors.
Miller’s lawyers, Karim Renno and Ava Liaghati, argue in the request for an appeal that the judgment made in January “fails to identify a common issue that is likely to advance the debate in any significant manner.”
The lawyers also argue that: “The authorizing judge accepted the incorporation of 46 anonymized declarations into the application for authorization and treated the facts alleged in those declarations (as) allegations of the application for authorization itself. That is a grave and unprecedented error of law and these allegations should not have been taken into consideration for the analysis of the authorization criteria. “
Helmut Lippmann and Raymond Poulet, two former employees of Future Electronics who are named in the class action, have also filed for an appeal.