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Appeal case books
Series · 1890-1947
Part of Supreme court as a court of appeal
Series forms part of Supreme Court as a court of appeal subfonds and consists of bound volumes containing printed appeal case records. The first statutory codification of court practice, the Judicature Act of 1884, included provisions for the printing of appeal cases and required that eight copies of the appeal case record be filed with the prothonotary. The printed case record was to contain the appeal papers, rules, minutes of evidence, statements of case, affidavits, report of trial, exhibits and all other matters on which argument could be made. The cover page of each case record identifies the parties to each case, their solicitors, the court and judge of original jurisdiction and the file number assigned by the prothonotary or clerk to the original case. Subsequent changes to the rules included the requirement of filing a printed case with the law library which was referred to with further precision as the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society Library in subsequent editions of the rules. The requirement was removed from the rules ca.1975. The cases in these volumes were collected by that library and bound in annual volumes.
Appeal cause books
Subseries · 1977-1981
Part of Supreme court as a court of appeal
Sub-series forms part of Official record books and consists of register books from which case numbers were assigned for civil and criminal appeals. The cause books record the case number, names of parties, appealing counsel, and the dates actions were commenced and documents filed. Books cover criminal cases SCC0001 to SCC0460 (1979-1981) and civil cases SCA00001 to SCA00938 (1977-1981).
Appeal chambers books
Subseries · 1974-1990
Part of Supreme court as a court of appeal
Sub-series forms part of Official record books series and consists of books recording chambers proceedings relating to appeals. For each cause, the books record the presiding judge, the date the cause was heard, the names of parties involved, their counsel, the nature of the application and its disposition. Chambers applications are heard by one judge and may include, but are not limited to, applications for leave to appeal, to extend or change a date, to stay proceedings, to appeal bail decisions of lower courts, or motions to dismiss, to apply security for costs and other motions. The final volume is a copy of the 1986-1990 chambers proceedings in which case dispositions were initialed by the presiding judge. Most volumes have internal indexes.