Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada

25 (1) An application for leave to appeal shall be bound with grey covers and consist of the following, in the following order:

• (a) a notice of application for leave to appeal in Form 25A;

• (b) any affidavits in support of the application for leave to appeal;

• (c) a certificate in Form 25B that states whether or not there is a sealing order or ban on the publication of evidence or the names or identity of a party or witness, gives the details of the sealing order or ban, if any, and includes a copy of any written order;

• (d) copies of all formal judgments as issued by the lower courts and the respective reasons for judgment, if any, beginning with the court of first instance or an administrative tribunal, as the case may be, and ending with the court appealed from;

• (e) a memorandum of argument divided as follows,

  • (i) Part I, a concise statement of facts,

  • (ii) Part II, a concise statement of the questions in 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,

  • (vi) Part VI, a table of authorities, arranged alphabetically and setting out the paragraph numbers in Part III where the authorities are cited, and

  • (vii) Part VII, those provisions of any statute, regulation, rule, ordinance or by-law relied printed in both official languages where required by law to be published in both official languages; and

• (f) the documents that the applicant intends to rely on, in chronological order.

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

(3) When the documents referred to in paragraph (1)(f) include transcripts or evidence, a party shall reproduce only the relevant excerpts of the transcript or evidence, including exhibits.

(4) When the documents referred to in paragraph (1)(f) are reproduced in the record filed with the court appealed from, three copies of that record may be filed with the Registrar instead of the documents.