A Citizen’s Vigil for Justice and Judicial Integrity

By Jude Thangarajah – Court File No. M56225 (COA-25-OM-0229)


For eight long years, I have struggled to correct a grave injustice that began in 2017 — one that continues to erode not only my dignity and mental health, but also public confidence in the fairness of our justice system.

At the heart of my case lies a false and unproven allegation — the claim that I threatened to “artificially inseminate” my former spouse with another man’s sperm.
That allegation was never part of the Agreed Statement of Facts, never admitted in any plea, and never tested in open court.
Yet it was repeated in judicial reasoning and amplified by media coverage, distorting public perception and permanently damaging my reputation.

This is not simply a personal grievance. It reflects a deeper failure of the ethical principles that Canada’s judges are sworn to uphold.


1.  Integrity and Impartiality

The Canadian Judicial Council’s Ethical Principles for Judges state that judges must conduct themselves “with integrity so as to sustain and enhance public confidence” and “avoid deliberate use of words or conduct that could give rise to a perception of bias.”

In my case, these duties were not met. A false, sexualized, and racially-tinged narrative — unsupported by any evidence — found its way into judicial reasoning and the public record.
This violated the fundamental obligation of impartiality and has inflicted years of moral and psychological harm.


2.  Diligence and Timeliness

The same principles require that justice be carried out with care and “reasonable promptness.”
Yet despite years of diligence on my part, my appeal has been delayed again and again for procedural reasons.
The system that demands accountability from citizens must also be accountable to them.

Justice delayed to this extent is justice denied.


3.  Equality and Human Dignity

The Equality section of the Judicial Council’s code emphasizes that judges must treat all persons before them “without discrimination” and with “appropriate consideration for differences of gender, race, culture, or disability.”

In my case, the court record and commentary reveal clear patterns of racial, gender, and psychological bias — assumptions about “bad genetics,” about masculinity, and about mental health — all of which compounded my trauma and isolation.
I have never denied wrongdoing for the one-time domestic assault incident of December 2016, but I have been forced for years to live under the shadow of additional, malicious accusations that were never proven or even charged.


4.  Independence and Accountability

Judicial independence exists to protect impartiality, not to shield the system from scrutiny.
When untested allegations become institutionalized and unquestioned at every level of appeal, independence has lost its purpose.

I continue this struggle not to attack the courts, but to remind them — and all Canadians — that independence must serve truth, fairness, and equality before the law.


Why I Continue the Justice Vigils

My Justice Vigils are peaceful acts of conscience.
They are not protests against law, but affirmations of it — a plea for integrity within the very institution that administers justice.

I stand publicly because my voice has been silenced privately.
I persist because uncorrected injustice becomes precedent.
And I continue because dignity, once denied, must be reclaimed through truth.

In Closing

The Ethical Principles for Judges were written so that the Canadian public could understand the high ideals our judiciary stands for: integrity, impartiality, diligence, equality, and independence.
My case demonstrates what happens when those ideals are not followed — when unproven narratives replace evidence and when silence replaces accountability.

I am not asking for sympathy.
I am asking for the same thing every Canadian is entitled to: a fair hearing, a truthful record, and the restoration of human dignity.


Jude Thangarajah
Applicant / Self-Represented
Court File No. M56225 (COA-25-OM-0229)
Kingston, Ontario


Reference:
Canadian Judicial Council -- Ethical Principles for Judges (PDF)