Key legal question
Whether the appellants qualified as victims for compensation and satisfaction based on alleged negligent homicide under Art. 117 SCC.
Extracted holding
The act of negligent homicide was not sufficiently established; without a qualifying offence causing direct impairment, victim status for compensation and satisfaction failed.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the lower court’s factual and legal assessment was not contrary to federal law. The causal link between the builder’s conduct and the fatal fall was not proven with the required degree of probability.