You are here

Appeallate practice and standard of review

Books
Canadian
o   Appellate courts: policy, law and practice (Winnipeg: Law Society of Manitoba, 2006)
o   * Brinton, Civil Appeal Handbook (British Columbia: CLE, looseleaf)
o   Civil appeals (Alberta Law Reform Institute: The Institute, 2007)
o   Côté, J. Well-run appeals (Canadian Judicial Council, 2006)
o   Crane & Brown, Supreme Court of Canada Practice (Toronto: Carswell, annual)
o   Fine, R., "How-to-win" appeal manual: winning appellate advocacy in a nutshell, Revised 2nd ed. (Juris Pub., 2008)
o   Hunter, J.J.L., Conducting a Civil Appeal (Calgary: Carswell, 1995)
o   Irvine, F., British Columbia Court Forms (McLachlin and Taylor), 2nd ed. (Markham: LexisNexis Butterworths, looseleaf) (4 volumes) – Chapter 22 covers Court of Appeal appeals and Chapter 23 covers Supreme Court of Canada appeals.
o   Kerans & Willey, Standards of review employed by appellate courts (Edmonton: Juriliber, 2006)
o   * Meehan et al., Supreme Court of Canada Manual: Practice and Advocacy (Aurora: Canada Law Book, looseleaf)
o   Ostberg & Wetstein, Attitudinal Decision Making in the Supreme Court of Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007)
o   * Porter, Lewis & Francis, Supreme Court of Canada practice guide (Vancouver: Western Legal Publications, looseleaf)
o   Scott et al., Appellate courts: policy, law and practice (Winnipeg: Law Society of Manitoba, 2006)
o   Sopinka & Gelowitz, The Conduct of an Appeal, 3rd ed. (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2012)
o   Supreme Court of Canada Statistics (Ottawa: Supreme Court, looseleaf)
 
English
o   Drewry, Blom-Cooper & Blake, The Court of Appeal (Oxford: Hart Pub., 2007)
 
American
o   Cross, F., Decision making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007)
o   Edwards & Elliott, Federal courts standards of review: appellate court review of district court decisions and agency actions (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2007)
o   * Rogosheske, H., Art of Advocacy: Appeals (New Jersey: Matthew Bender) (looseleaf)
 
Other countries
o   Blank & Selby, Appellate practice (Annandale, N.S.W.: The Federation Press, 2008)
o   O’Brien, D., Special leave to appeal, 2nd ed. (Brisbane: Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2007)
 
Blogs
Blog covering Supreme Court of Canada Decisions 
 
Websites
Supreme Court of Canada  
  
Supreme Court of Canada advocacy institute