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Family law 2025 BCCA 403

St. Arnault v. Wareham

Application to remove an appeal from the inactive list dismissed because the delay was inordinate, inadequately explained, and the appeal had weak prospects.

  • Inactive appeals
  • Delay and abandonment
  • Finality
  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of appellate review
  • Transcript and appeal book filing
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Property 2024 BCCA 177

Centrone v. Jones

The Court of Appeal dismissed an application to reactivate an appeal after prolonged inactivity, finding the delay inordinate, the explanation inadequate, prejudice to respondents, and limited merits.

  • Specific performance
  • Reactivation of appeal
  • Delay and abandonment
  • Enforceability of land contracts
  • Law and equity act s.59(3)
  • Land title act s.29
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Immigration law 2020 FC 776

Aarab v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of the Refugee Appeal Division’s refusal to reopen the applicant’s appeal, finding no breach of natural justice and no unreasonable decision.

  • Natural justice
  • Procedural fairness
  • Right to counsel
  • Extension of time
  • Re‑opening appeals
  • Legitimate expectation
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Workers' compensation 2016 BCCA 394

Gonzalez v. British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Board)

The Court of Appeal dismissed an application to vary a chambers order refusing to reinstate an abandoned appeal after a 4.5-year delay.

  • Reinstatement of appeal
  • Delay and abandonment
  • Standard of review
  • Indigency application
  • Procedural discretion
  • Appeal-procedure
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Criminal law 2013 BCCA 161

R. v. Baptiste

The court granted an extension of time and appointed counsel for the sentence appeal, but refused both reliefs for the conviction appeal.

  • Extension of time to appeal
  • Appointment of counsel under s.684
  • Long-term offender designation
  • Dangerous offender criteria
  • Delay and abandonment
  • Merits assessment of appeal
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Family law 2012 BCCA 218

MacLanders v. MacLanders

The court dismissed an application to extend time to appeal a family-law order, finding the appellant’s delay and choice to pursue variation relief weighed against an extension.

  • Spousal support
  • Extension of time to appeal
  • Stay pending appeal
  • Consolidation of appeals
  • Delay and abandonment
  • Extension-of-time-to-appeal
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Family law 1999 BCCA 693

Phillips v. Phillps

The Court of Appeal reinstated the appeal on the active list, conditioned on $6,000 security for costs and timely filing of the certificate of readiness.

  • Reinstatement of appeal
  • Security for costs
  • Delay and abandonment
  • Costs against appellant
  • Solicitor default
  • Security-for-costs
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