19. The Court may, on application by the Minister or an appellant or by an intervener or of its own motion, fix the date, time and place for the hearing of an appeal.

20. When the Court has fixed the date for a hearing, the Registrar shall, no later than 30 days before that date, send by registered mail to all parties, or have served on all parties to the appeal, a notice of hearing.

21. The Court may, on application by the Minister or an appellant or by an intervener or of its own motion, adjourn an appeal on such terms as in its opinion the circumstances of the case require.

22. The Court, upon the application of a party to an appeal or of its own motion and after giving every party an opportunity to be heard, may, at any stage of the appeal, give directions for the further conduct of the appeal.

23. All parties to an appeal may appear in person or may be represented by counsel or an agent.

• 24. (1) A party who requires the attendance of a person as a witness at a hearing may serve the person with a subpoena requiring the person to attend the hearing at the time and place stated in the subpoena and the subpoena may also require the person to produce at the hearing the documents or other things in the person’s possession, control or power relating to the matters in question in the appeal that are specified in the subpoena.

• (2) On the request of a party or of counsel, the Registrar, or some other person authorized by the Chief Justice, shall sign, seal and issue a blank subpoena and the party or counsel may complete the subpoena and insert the names of any number of witnesses.

• (3) A subpoena shall be served on a witness personally and, at the same time, witness fees and expenses in accordance with subsection (4) shall be paid or tendered to the witness.

• (4) A witness, other than a witness who appears to give evidence as an expert, is entitled to be paid by the party who arranged for his or her attendance $75 per day, plus reasonable and proper transportation and living expenses.

• (5) An amount is not payable under subsection (4) in respect of an appellant, a respondent or a person who has intervened under section 9 unless the appellant, respondent or person has been called upon to testify by another party to the appeal.

• 25. (1) A party to an appeal may, prior to the hearing thereof or at any time during the hearing, apply to the Court for a direction permitting all facts or any particular fact or facts to be proved by other than oral evidence and the Court may give such direction as in its opinion the circumstances of the case require.

• (2) All evidence given at the hearing of an appeal shall be recorded in a manner approved by the Registrar.

• (3) Any person who swears an affidavit to be used in an appeal may be required to appear before a person appointed by the Court for that purpose to be cross-examined thereon.

• (4) Where a party intends to call an expert witness at the hearing of an appeal, that party shall, as soon as practicable and not later than 20 days before the date of the hearing of the appeal, serve at the Registry and on every other party a copy of the report signed by that expert containing the expert’s name, address and qualifications and a statement of the substance of that expert’s proposed testimony.

• (5) A copy of a report by an expert witness shall be served

  • (a) by filing it in the Registry in which the notice of appeal was filed or to which it was mailed or by sending the report by mail or fax to that Registry, and

  • (b) on every other party to an appeal by personal service or by sending the report to that party by mail or fax

  and, if a copy of the report is served by fax, the date of service is the date of the transmission of the fax, or if it is served by mail, the date of service is the date stamped on the envelope at the post office and, if there is more than one such date, the date of service shall be deemed to be the earliest date.

• (6) A party who has failed to comply with subsection (4) is not permitted to call an expert witness without leave of the Court.

• (7) Subsections (4) and (6) do not apply to evidence in rebuttal.

• (8) The Court may, with the consent of all parties, receive in evidence at the hearing of the appeal a report served under subsection (4) without requiring the expert to attend and give oral evidence.

• (9) Where it is impracticable or inconvenient for an expert witness to attend at the hearing of an appeal, the party intending to call the witness may, with leave of the Court or the consent of the parties, examine the witness under oath prior to the hearing of the appeal before a court reporter appointed by the Registrar for the purpose of having the evidence of that expert available for use at the hearing of the appeal.

• (10) An expert witness who is examined under subsection (9) may be examined, cross-examined by a party adverse in interest, or re-examined in the same manner as a witness at the hearing of an appeal and, if any dispute arises during the course of the examination, any party to the appeal may make application to the Court to resolve the dispute.

• (11) Where the evidence of an expert witness has been taken under subsections (9) and (10), that witness shall not be called to give evidence at the hearing of the appeal, except with leave of the Court or unless the Court requires the attendance of that witness at the hearing of the appeal.