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Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada

Version of section 29 from 2006-10-13 to 2011-04-10:

  •  (1) Within 30 days after service of an application for leave to appeal in the case of an appeal for which leave is required or a notice of appeal in all other cases, a respondent who seeks to set aside or vary all or any part of the disposition of the judgment appealed from may apply for leave to cross-appeal by

    • (a) serving an application for leave to cross-appeal on all other parties;

    • (b) sending to all other parties and interveners in the court appealed from a copy of the notice of application for leave to cross-appeal by ordinary mail to the last known address; and

    • (c) filing with the Registrar the original and five copies of the application for leave to cross-appeal together with an affidavit attesting to the names of the parties and interveners referred to in paragraph (b) and addresses to which the copies were sent.

  • (2) The application for leave to cross-appeal

    • (a) shall be bound with green covers and be otherwise in accordance with Rule 25 and Form 29, with any modifications that the circumstances require; and

    • (b) may be joined with the response to the application for leave to appeal.

  • (3) A respondent who seeks to uphold the judgment appealed from on a ground not relied on in the reasons for that judgment may do so in the respondent’s factum without applying for leave to cross-appeal.

  • (4) In the circumstances set out in subrule (3), the appellant may serve and file, in accordance with subrule 35(4), a factum in response not exceeding 20 pages that is bound with beige covers and on which a reference to this rule appears between the horizontal lines.

  • SOR/2006-203, s. 10

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