Marginal note:Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Supreme Court Act.

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2. (1) In this Act,

  “appeal”

  « appel »

  “appeal” includes any proceeding to set aside or vary any judgment of the court appealed from;

  “Court”

  « Cour suprême » ou « Cour »

  “Court” means the Supreme Court of Canada continued by section 3;

  “court appealed from”

  « juridiction inférieure »

  “court appealed from” means the court from which the appeal is brought directly to the Supreme Court, whether that court is one of original jurisdiction or a court of appeal;

  “final judgment”

  « jugement définitif »

  “final judgment” means any judgment, rule, order or decision that determines in whole or in part any substantive right of any of the parties in controversy in any judicial proceeding;

  “judge”

  « juge »

  “judge” means a judge of the Court and includes the Chief Justice;

  “judgment”

  « jugement »

  “judgment”, when used with reference to the court appealed from, includes any judgment, rule, order, decision, decree, decretal order or sentence thereof, and when used with reference to the Supreme Court, includes any judgment or order of that Court;

  “judicial proceeding”

  « procédure judiciaire »

  “judicial proceeding” includes any action, suit, cause, matter or other proceeding in disposing of which the court appealed from has not exercised merely a regulative, administrative or executive jurisdiction;

  “Registrar”

  « registraire »

  “Registrar” means the Registrar of the Court;

  “Supreme Court”

  « Cour suprême » ou « Cour »

  “Supreme Court” has the meaning given in this section to “Court”;

  “witness”

  « témoin »

  “witness” means any person, whether a party or not, to be examined under this Act.

• Marginal note:Application to the territories

  (2) For the purposes of this Act, the expression "highest court of final resort in a province" includes, in Yukon, the Northwest Territories or Nunavut, the Court of Appeal of that territory.