Sawridge Band v. Canada
T-66-86
Muldoon J.
21/4/95
4 pp.
Dispute arising between Court's registry and interveners regarding whether interveners responsible for payment of fees pursuant to Tariff A of Rules -- Issue whether interveners responsible to share accumulated costs relating to courtroom usage and reporters -- Interveners arguing not "parties" pursuant to Tariff A, ss. 1(3), 2(1)(a), (b), (d); and, as funded by Test Case Funding Program (Program), payments of fees resulting in senseless movement of public money -- Entitlement to: (1) file pleadings; (2) call evidence; (3) cross-examine each witness by one intervener-designate; and (4) participate in discovery assimilating interveners to "party" status -- 20 % waiver of fees commensurate with less than full plenitude of participation granted interveners at outset of hearing -- Government debt and cut-backs to Federal Court budget proper considerations in matter -- Program paying Court fees incurred by interveners -- Failure to pay such fees resulting in deprivation by one federal institution, Federal Court, of revenue to which entitled, and retention by Program of revenue to which not entitled -- Federal Court Rules, C.R.C., c. 663, R. 352(1), Tariff A.