Date: 20040504
Docket: A-251-02
Citation: 2004 FCA 179
BETWEEN:
SONIA DION
Applicant
and
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA
Respondent
ASSESSMENT OF COSTS - REASONS
Assessment Officer
[1] This application for judicial review (and in 45 other related cases) was dismissed with costs on November 4, 2003. On January 30, 2004, Dominique Guimond, counsel for the respondent, filed a separate bill of costs with affidavit in support of each of the 46 cases, and asked that they be assessed without a personal appearance by the parties.
[2] I will quote here paragraph 5 of the reasons for judgment of the Court, including instructions as to the costs to be awarded in all the cases:
The parties agreed at the hearing that the costs for the memorandum and the oral arguments would be determined on the basis of a single application, but that they would include the costs of preparing each of the other records.
[3] As there were no written submissions by the applicants, all represented by William de Merchant, we will proceed with the assessment of the 46 bills of costs. These reasons will apply to all the cases, a list of which is attached.
[4] Counsel for the respondent sought the maximum units for items 2, 13a, 14a and 26. I entirely agree. The large number of related cases fully justifies the higher level.
[5] Each of the forty-six bills of costs contains disbursements for photocopying and bailiffs. Those disbursements were proven in the affidavits in support of each bill and will accordingly be awarded.
[6] The respondent's costs both in this case and in the other forty-five related cases are assessed and allowed in the amounts appearing in the assessment certificates filed in each of those cases. Additionally, a copy of these reasons for assessment of costs will be entered in all the other cases to have the effect of an original.
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"François Pilon" |
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Assessment Officer |
Halifax, Nova Stocia
May 4, 2004
Certified true translation
Suzanne M. Gauthier, C Tr, LLL
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APPLICANT |
DECISION IMPUGNED |
COURT No. |
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Sonia Dion |
CUB 53724 CUB 53725 CUB 53726 CUB 53727 CUB 53728 CUB 53729 |
A-251-02 A-257-02 A-259-02 A-260-02 A-261-02 A-262-02 |
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Claude Michel Daigle |
CUB 53730 |
A-291-02 |
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Lynn-Marie Martin |
CUB 53731 CUB 53732 CUB 53733 |
A-288-02 A-287-02 A-290-02 |
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Florin Mulstein |
CUB 53734 CUB 53735 CUB 53736 |
A-284-02 A-282-02 A-286-02 |
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Valeria Mulstein |
CUB 53737 CUB 53738 CUB 53739 |
A-274-02 A-275-02 A-278-02 |
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Mike Fiorillo |
CUB 53740 CUB 53741 CUB 53743 CUB 53743 CUB 53744 |
A-289-02 A-293-02 A-301-02 A-304-02 A-305-02 |
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Cristian Florescu |
CUB 53746 CUB 53747 CUB 53748 CUB 53749 |
A-264-02 A-265-02 A-266-02 A-269-02 |
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Normand Gougeon |
CUB 53750 CUB 53751 |
A-298-02 A-300-02 |
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Martin Chouinard |
CUB 53753 CUB 53754 CUB 53755 CUB 53756 CUB 53757 CUB 53758 |
A-271-02 A-273-02 A-276-02 A-280-02 A-283-02 A-285-02 |
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Émile Perreault |
CUB 53761 |
A-296-02 |
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Marie-Josée Camirand |
CUB 53762 CUB 53764 |
A-252-02 A-254-02 |
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Valérie Trépanier |
CUB 53765 |
A-255-02 |
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Annie Filioux |
CUB 53766 CUB 53767 CUB 53768 |
A-256-02 A-263-02 A-258-02 |
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Chantal Gougeon |
CUB 53770 CUB 53771 CUB 53772 CUB 53773 CUB 53774 CUB 53775 |
A-281-02 A-268-02 A-279-02 A-277-02 A-272-02 A-270-02 |
FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
COURT FILE No.: A-251-02
BETWEEN:
SONIA DION
Applicant
and
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA
Respondent
ASSESSMENT IN WRITING WITHOUT PERSONAL APPEARANCE
REASONS BY: François Pilon, Assessment Officer
PLACE OF ASSESSMENT: Halifax, Nova Scotia
DATED: May 4, 2004
SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
Ouellet, Nadon, Barabé, Cyr, de Merchant, Bernstein, for the applicant
Cousineau, Heap, Palardy, Gagnon, Tremblay
Montréal, Quebec
Morris Rosenberg for the respondents
Deputy Attorney General of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario