Ogg-Moss v. The Queen, 1983 CanLII 139 (SCC), [1984] 2 SCR 171

Supreme Court of Canada

Ogg-Moss v. The Queen, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 171

Date: 1983-11-03

William Elford Ogg-Moss Appellant;

and

Her Majesty The Queen Respondent.

Phyllis Jean Nixon Appellant;

and

Her Majesty The Queen Respondent.

File Nos.: 16648 and 16763.

1983: November 3.

Present: Ritchie, Dickson, Estey, McIntyre and Chouinard JJ.

INTERVENTIONS

Practice—Interventions—Criminal appeals—Ontario Association for the Mentally Retarded intervener in the Court of Appeal—Associations interventions in the Supreme Court disallowed—Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada, SOR/83-74, rule 18(2).

INTERVENTIONS by the Ontario Association for the Mentally Retarded. Interventions disallowed.

Ronald L. Doering, for the appellant Ogg-Moss.

R.J. Poirier, for the appellant Nixon.

S. Casey Hill and Kenneth L. Campbell, for the respondent.

Colin L. Campbell and Harry Beatty, for the Ontario Association for the Mentally Retarded.

The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

RITCHIE J.—We are all of the opinion that rule 18(2) of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada¹ has no application to purely criminal appeals. These interventions are therefore disallowed.

Judgment accordingly.

Solicitor for the appellant Ogg-Moss: Ronald L. Doering, Ottawa.

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Solicitors for the appellant Nixon: MacGillivray-Poirier, Thunder Bay.

Solicitor for the respondent: The Attorney General for the Province of Ontario, Toronto.

Solicitors for the Ontario Association for the Mentally Retarded: Campbell and Morse, Toronto; Harry Beatty, Toronto.

Footnotes

1. 1The Court has amended Rule 18 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada on December 18, 1983, SOR/83-930, by revoking subs. (2).