Submission to the Supreme Court of Canada re: CCGG's
Intervener Factum in Livent Inc. vs Deloitte LLP
Intervener factums became available on the SCC website as of April 13: http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/case-dossier/rec-doc/af-ma-eng.aspx.
Not exact matches
The SCC has not yet seen fit to include the appellant's reply
factum, the
factums of the four
interveners, or the respondent's reply to the
interveners»
factums.
ARL's Affidavit can be viewed here: The Affidavit of Justin W. Anisman ARL's
Factum can be viewed here:
Factum of the
Intervener ARL
FACTUM OF THE
INTERVENERS, COUNCIL OF CANADIANS WITH DISABILITIES and THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING (Pursuant to Rules 42 and 59 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada)
There are strict rules about the maximum length of the
factum and the amount of time
interveners are allotted to make their arguments.
As noted in the
Factum of the
Intervener of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), the accused had been convicted of assaulting the complainant on two previous occasions, and as noted by the trial judge, the complainant's recantation on the issue of consent was typical of a domestic violence context (at para. 2).
The proposed
interveners intend to file one joint
factum of 20 pages or less and make oral submissions not exceeding 20 minutes.
Their clients are among the
interveners that filed
factums in the case last week, including the federal attorney general, which is arguing the law society's decision not to accredit the school was unreasonable.
The
factum of some of the
interveners are also available online, such as the Coalition of West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund & Justice for Children and Youth & Arch Disability Centre, and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.
The Supreme Court of Canada provides copies of the
factums for the parties and
interveners on its website.
The Advocates» Society has also placed online Groia's
factum, that of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association as
intervener and the respondent Law Society's
factum.
Thanks to a comment Noel Semple on the legal ethics email list to which I belong, I was alerted to the fact that the Advocates» Society has filed a
factum as an
intervener in the appeal by Joseph Groia of the finding against him of misconduct — «incivility,» principally — by the Law Society of Upper Canada.