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Radio-Canada journalist Marie-Maude Denis will not have to testify, at least for now, at the trial of former Roche vice-president Marc-Yvan Côté. The Supreme Court of Canada has decided to hear her case.

Denis and her employer had turned to the high court to challenge a Superior Court ruling compelling her to reveal her sources.

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That lower court judgment last March ordered Denis to testify at the trial of Côté, former Quebec deputy-premier Nathalie Normandeau, and four other co-accused.

The court had ordered her to provide information on two reports aired in April of 2012 and December of 2015.

Her testimony was requested within a motion by the defence that the trial be stopped because of leaks to the media, and that Denis’s testimony was needed to determine whether the alleged leaks were orchestrated by the high command of Quebec’s anti-corruption squad (UPAC).

Denis had taken her case to the Quebec Court of Appeal, which determined it did not have the competence to hear the case.

Normandeau, her former chief of staff Bruno Lortie, Côté, Mario W. Martel and France Michaud, also of the engineering firm Roche, as well as former Gaspé mayor François Roussy, were arrested by UPAC in March 2016 as part of an investigation into the alleged awarding of public contracts in exchange for political financing.