COMMENCEMENT OF AN APPEAL

CHAPTER SEVEN

  • 7:1000 INITIATING AN APPEAL
  • 7:1100 Notices of Appeal and Applications for Leave to Appeal
  • 7:1110 Generally
  • 7:1120 Legislative Provisions
  • 7:1111 Supreme Court Act
  • 7:1112 The Federal Courts Act
  • 7:1113 British Columbia and the Yukon Territory
  • 7:1114 Alberta, the North West Territory and Nunavut
  • 7:1115 Saskatchewan
  • 7:1116 Manitoba
  • 7:1117 Ontario
  • 7:1118 Quebec
  • 7:1119 The Maritime Provinces
  • 7:1200 Purpose and Content of the Notice of Appeal
  • 7:1210 Purposes of the Notice
  • 7:1211 Generally
  • 7:1212 Jurisdictional Effect
  • 7:1213 Content of Notice of Appeal Defines Scope of Appeal
  • 7:1220 Service and Filing
  • 7:1300 Notice of Cross-Appeal
  • 7:1310 Independent and Conditional Cross-Appeals
  • 7:1320 The Requirement of Notice of Cross-Appeal
  • 7:2000 PARTIES
  • 7:2100 Overview
  • 7:2110 Identification of the Parties
  • 7:2120 Capacity
  • 7:2130 Authority To Institute an Appeal
  • 7:2200 Status or Standing to Appeal
  • 7:2210 Parties to the Proceedings Below
  • 7:2220 Persons Who Were Not Parties to the Proceedings Below
  • 7:2221 Legislative Criteria for Determining Standing
  • 7:2222 The Criteria Applied: No Standing to Appeal
  • 7:2223 The Criteria Applied: Standing to Appeal Granted
  • 7:2230 Judicial Discretion To Grant Standing to Appeal
  • 7:2300 Respondents
  • 7:2310 Generally
  • 7:2320 Administrative Decision Makers as Respondents
  • 7:2330 Adding a Respondent by Application
  • 7:3000 INTERVENTION BY THIRD PERSONS
  • 7:3100 Overview
  • 7:3110 Balancing Competing Interests
  • 7:3120 Other Discretionary Considerations
  • 7:3130 Imposition of Terms as a Technique for Striking the Balance
  • 7:3140 Inviting Intervention of a Third Party
  • 7:3150 Leave to Intervene by the Attorney General
  • 7:3151 Intervention as Parens Patriae
  • 7:3152 Intervention as of Right
  • 7:3160 Leave to Intervene by Administrative Decision-Makers
  • 7:3170 Practice Considerations
  • 7:3200 Intervention in the Supreme Court of Canada
  • 7:3210 Generally
  • 7:3220 Criteria
  • 7:3230 Procedural Considerations
  • 7:3300 Intervention in the Intermediate Appellate Courts
  • 7:3310 Generally
  • 7:3320 Bases For Intervention as a Party
  • 7:3321 Ontario, Manitoba , New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland
  • 7:3322 Nova Scotia and the Federal Courts
  • 7:3323 British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan
  • 7:3330 The Applicant’s Interest in the Outcome of the Appeal
  • 7:3331 Interests Likely to be Adversely Affected
  • 7:3332 Interests Would not be Adversely Affected
  • 7:3333 Jurisprudential Interest
  • 7:3340 Public Interest Intervenors: Amicus Curiae
  • 7:3341 Overview
  • 7:3342 Restrictions and Limitations on Status of Amicus Curae
  • 7:3343 Criteria for Amicus Curiae Intervention
  • 7:3344 Leave to Intervene Granted
  • 7:3345 Leave To Intervene Denied
  • 7:4000 TIME-LIMITS FOR COMMENCEMENT
  • 7:4100 Overview
  • 7:4110 Jurisdictional Effect of Non-Compliance with Time-Limits
  • 7:4120 Statutory Provisions for Extensions of Time
  • 7:4130 Attaching Conditions to Orders Extending Time
  • 7:4200 Beginning and End of a Time Period
  • 7:4210 The Triggering Act
  • 7:4211 When an Order Comes into Existence
  • 7:4212 Orders Made up of Instalments
  • 7:4213 Cross-Appeals
  • 7:4220 The End Point
  • 7:4230 Conflicting Time Periods
  • 7:4300 Extending the Time of Commencement
  • 7:4310 Overview
  • 7:4311 The Factors to be Considered
  • 7:4312 Overriding Discretion to Extend Time in the Interests of Justice
  • 7:4320 Bona Fide Intention to Appeal
  • 7:4321 Exception: Ignorance of Decision or Law
  • 7:4322 Exception: Change in the Applicable Law
  • 7:4323 Mistakes in Service and Filing
  • 7:4324 Notification to the Respondent
  • 7: 4330 Explanation of the Delay
  • 7: 4331 Generally
  • 7: 4332 Solicitor’s Error
  • 7:4340 Prejudice to the Respondent
  • 7:4341 Prejudice Must Result from the Delay
  • 7:4342 Length of the Delay
  • 7:4343 Prejudice Found
  • 7:4344 Neutralizing Possible Prejudice
  • 7:4350 Merit in the Appeal
  • 7:4351 Overview
  • 7:4352 The Usual Tests of Merit
  • 7:4353 Insufficient Merit
  • 7:4354 Where the Merits Involve Substantial Issues
  • 7:4360 The Interests of Justice
  • 7:4361 “Merits” as the Dominant Factor
  • 7:4362 “Interests of Justice” as a Consideration apart from the Merits
  • 7:4400 Extension of Time to Cross-Appeal
  • 7:4500 Practice Considerations






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