F-6 - Act respecting municipal bribery and corruption

Section 14 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

14. Whosoever deems himself wronged by the judgment may appeal therefrom, to the Court of Appeal, within fifteen days after the registration of such judgment by the prothonotary. The appeal may relate either to the facts or to the law. It shall be heard, with all reasonable diligence, by three judges of the Court of Appeal designated by the Chief Justice of that Court.

Subject to the following provisions, articles 492 to 523 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply to such appeals in the same manner as in the case of an appeal from a final judgment of the Superior Court.

The security shall be $1 000; it shall be received by a judge of the Superior Court or by the prothonotary, in the district where the judgment was registered.

The appellant shall not be obliged to file a joint record but he must, within the fifteen days following the transmission of the record of the inquiry by the prothonotary to the office of the Court of Appeal, file thereat six copies of the petition contemplated in section 9 and six copies of the judgment. If there be more than one appeal, such record and such copies of petition and judgment shall avail for the purposes of all the appeals and the Court, in its discretion, may join all or some of them for hearing.

The factums of the parties must be typewritten or multigraphed and it shall suffice to file eight copies thereof in each case.

R. S. 1964, c. 173, s. 14 (part); 1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 1; 1974, c. 11, s. 2.