Julius H. Grey

The appellant sought compensation from the Foreign Claims Commission for assets nationalized by Czechoslovakia.

The Commission and the Federal Court of Appeal denied her claim, finding her dominant nationality was Czechoslovakian, not Canadian, at the time of expropriation.

The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal, holding that the Regulations defining 'Canadian citizen' were unambiguous and did not exclude dual citizens.

The Court applied the plain meaning rule, concluding that extraneous materials, such as international agreements or negotiators' reports, could not be used to interpret the clear terms of the domestic Regulations.

The appellant appealed a judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal affirming a deportation order.

The notice of appeal was filed in October 1976 but the appeal was not brought for hearing within the one-year period required by Rule 59 of the Rules of the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the appeal was abandoned by virtue of Rule 59 and declined to order otherwise.