New Alberta Court of Appeal Rules

Yesterday, September 1, 2014, the new Alberta Court of Appeal Rules came into effect. The new rules were announced on May 23, and the new rules themselves were enacted on March 12, 2014. An announcement explains:

When the Alberta Rules of Court were replaced in November,
2010, they did not contain rules for appeals to the Court of Appeal of Alberta. While we waited for these new appellate rules, the “old (1968) rules” continued to apply to appeals to the Court of Appeal. With the enactment of the new Court of Appeal rules , all of the 2010 Rules of
Court will now apply to appeals in the Court of Appeal.

The Alberta Rules of Court, consolidated to September 1, 2014 are available to all via the Alberta Queen’s Printer website.

This marks the end of the lenthy project to update our rules that started with a request to the Alberta Law Reform Insitute back in 2001. For the history of the project, look to ALRI’s Rules of Court Project Final Report.