Ogg-Moss v. The Queen

Ogg-Moss v. The Queen
Collection
Supreme Court Judgments
Date
1983-11-03
Report
[1984] 2 SCR 171
Case number
16648, 16763
Judges
Ritchie, Roland Almon; Dickson, Robert George Brian; Estey, Willard Zebedee; McIntyre, William Rogers; Chouinard, Julien
On appeal from
Ontario
Subjects
Action
Notes
SCC Case Information: 16763, 16648
Decision Content
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 Canada[1] has no application to purely criminal appeals. These interventions are therefore disallowed.
Judgment accordingly.
Solicitor for the appellant Ogg-Moss: Ronald L. Doering, Ottawa. 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.
[1] The 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).