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Cour d'appel fédérale

 

Date: 20120109

Docket: A-230-11

Citation: 2012 FCA 2

 

CORAM:       EVANS J.A.

                        SHARLOW J.A.                   

                        STRATAS J.A.

 

BETWEEN:

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

Applicant

and

 

BRIAN CRAIG

Respondent

 

 

 

Heard at Toronto, Ontario, on January 9, 2012.

Judgment delivered at Toronto, Ontario, on January 9, 2012.

 

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:                                                   EVANS J.A.


Federal Court of Appeal

 

Cour d'appel fédérale

 

Date: 20120109

Docket: A-230-11

Citation: 2012 FCA 2

 

CORAM:       EVANS J.A.

                        SHARLOW J.A.                   

                        STRATAS J.A.

 

BETWEEN:

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

Applicant

and

 

BRIAN CRAIG

Respondent

 

 

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

(Delivered from the Bench at Toronto, Ontario, on January 9, 2012)

 

EVANS J.A.

[1]               We are not persuaded that the Umpire committed an error of law warranting the intervention of the Court in his decision, dated April 5, 2011 (CUB 76850) to uphold the decision of the Board of Referees, dated April 22, 2010, that the benefit period commencement date of Brian Craig, was January 11, 2009.

 

[2]               In our view, the record in this case discloses no basis in fact or law for the Commission’s decision of June 2009 to antedate Mr Craig’s benefit commencement date to December 21, 2008. Consequently, there is nothing to displace the benefit period commencement date of January 11, 2009, established by subsection 10(1) of the Employment Insurance Act, S.C. 1996, C-23 when Mr Craig made his initial claim for benefits on January 12, 2009. 

 

[3]               For these reasons, the application for judicial review will be dismissed.

 

 

      "John M. Evans"    

J.A.

 


FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

 

NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD

 

 

DOCKET:                                                                              A-230-11

 

(AN APPLICATION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUSSELL, AS UMPIRE, DATED APRIL 22, 2010, DOCKET NO. CUB 76850).

 

 

STYLE OF CAUSE:                                                              ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA v BRIAN CRAIG

 

 

PLACE OF HEARING:                                                        Toronto, Ontario

 

 

DATE OF HEARING:                                                          January 9, 2012

 

 

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:       (EVANS, SHARLOW & STRATAS JJ.A.)

 

DELIVERED FROM THE BENCH BY:                            EVANS J.A.

 

APPEARANCES:

 

Derek Edwards

 

 

FOR THE APPLICANT

Marion E. Overholt

FOR THE RESPONDENT

 

 

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:

 

Myles J. Kirvan

Deputy Attorney General of Canada

FOR THE APPLICANT

 

 

Marion E. Overholt

Legal Assistance of Windsor, Barrister and Solicitor

Windsor, Ontario

FOR THE RESPONDENT

 

 

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