Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada

25 (1) An application for leave to appeal must be bound and consist of the following:

• (a) a notice of application for leave to appeal in Form 25, citing the legislative provision that authorizes the application for leave to appeal and including as a schedule to the notice of application for leave to appeal, beginning with the court of first instance or the administrative tribunal, as the case may be, and ending with the court appealed from,

  • (i) the reasons for judgment, if any,

  • (ii) the formal judgments or orders, as signed and entered, and

  • (iii) if the formal judgments or orders have not been signed and entered, all draft orders, the final versions of which must be filed separately immediately after they are signed and entered;

• (b) [Repealed, SOR/2020-281, s. 2]

• (c) a memorandum of argument divided as follows:

  • (i) Part I, a concise overview of the applicant’s position with respect to issues of public importance that are raised in the application for leave to appeal and a concise statement of facts,

  • (ii) Part II, a concise statement of the questions in issue and, if the proposed appeal raises an issue in respect of the constitutional validity or applicability of a statute, regulation or common law rule or the inoperability of a statute or regulation, a concise statement of the issue,

  • (iii) Part III, a concise statement of argument,

  • (iv) Part IV, submissions, if any, not exceeding one page in support of the order sought concerning costs,

  • (v) Part V, the order or orders sought, including the order or orders sought concerning costs,

  • (vi) Part VI, a table of authorities — including the relevant provisions of any statute, regulation, rule, ordinance or by-law being relied on, in both official languages if the provisions are required by law to be published in both official languages — that is arranged alphabetically, includes, if available, hyperlinks to all authorities and sets out the paragraph numbers where the authorities are cited in the memorandum of argument, and

  • (vii) Part VII, a photocopy, or a printout from an electronic database, of those provisions of any statute, regulation, rule, ordinance or by-law being relied on for which hyperlinks are not provided in Part VI, in both official languages if they are required by law to be published in both official languages; and

• (c.1) [Repealed, SOR/2013-175, s. 16]

• (d) if, in support of the application for leave to appeal, the applicant intends to rely on transcripts or evidence from the record filed with the court appealed from, the relevant excerpts of the transcripts or evidence, including exhibits.

• (e) to (g) [Repealed, SOR/2013-175, s. 16]

(2) Parts I to V of the memorandum of argument must not exceed 20 pages.

(3) [Repealed, SOR/2020-281, s. 2]

(4) [Repealed, SOR/2020-281, s. 2]

(5) [Repealed, SOR/2013-175, s. 16]