Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada

44 (1) The appellant’s book of authorities shall be bound in beige covers, the respondent’s book in green covers and the intervener’s book in blue covers.

(2) The book of authorities shall

• (a) contain a copy of all of the authorities that the party intends to rely on, each of which shall be marked with a tab, and

  • (i) in the case of a respondent’s book, contain only those authorities not contained in the appellant’s book of authorities, and

  • (ii) in the case of an intervener’s book, contain only those authorities not contained in either the appellant’s or the respondent’s book of authorities;

• (b) contain the provisions of any statute, regulation, rule, ordinance or by-law which are cited in Part III of the factum and not included in Part VII of the factum, printed in both official languages where required by law to be published in both official languages.

(3) In the case of reasons for judgment of the Court, the book of authorities shall contain only the relevant excerpts from the Canada Supreme Court Reports or from an electronic database if the reasons were delivered after 1994 and the paragraph numbering in the reasons is consistent with the numbering in the Canada Supreme Court Reports.

(4) In the case of all other reasons for judgment, the book of authorities may contain printouts from electronic databases and shall

• (a) if the reasons for judgment are available electronically, contain only the relevant excerpts including the head note, if any, the pages immediately preceding and following the page which contains the excerpt, and the reference to the electronic database clearly marked on the page containing the excerpt; or

• (b) if the reasons for judgment are not available electronically, contain the reasons for judgment in full.

(5) Where a book of authorities exceeds 300 pages, it shall be bound in volumes of not more than 200 pages each.

(6) Where a book of authorities is printed in more than one volume, below the title but within the horizontal lines there shall be indicated in Roman numerals the volume number and, after or below the volume number, the page numbers of the first and last pages in that volume.

(7) The volume number in Roman numerals shall also appear on the bottom cutting edge of each volume.