Cornish-Hardy v. Board of Referees, [1980] 1 SCR 1218

Supreme Court of Canada

Cornish-Hardy v. Board of Referees, [1980] 1 S.C.R. 1218

Date: 1980-06-19

Dawn Cornish-Hardy Appellant;

and

Board of Referees constituted under section 91 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1971 Respondent.

1980: June 19.

Present: Martland, Ritchie, Beetz, McIntyre and Chouinard JJ.

ON APPEAL FROM THE FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

Judicial review—Unemployment insurance—Application for remission of unduly paid benefits—No right of appeal from the decision of the Unemployment Insurance Commission on this application—Unemployment Insurance Act, 1971, 1970-71-72 (Can.), c. 48, ss. 54(1), 57(1),(2), 58i), 94—Unemployment Insurance Regulations, SOR/71-324, s. 175—Federal Court Act, R.S.C. 1970 (2nd Supp.), c. 10, s. 28.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal[1] dismissing an application for judicial review of a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Commission under s. 28 of the Federal Court Act. Appeal dismissed.

Pierre Genest, Q.C., and Andrew Roman, for the appellant.

J.A. Scollin, Q.C., and M.H. Zazulak, for the respondent.

The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

MARTLAND J.—The submissions made on behalf of the appellant have failed to persuade us that the Federal Court of Appeal erred in law in dismissing her application to that Court. The appeal is dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.

Solicitor for the appellant: Andrew J. Roman, Ottawa.

Solicitor for the respondent: The Deputy Attorney General of Canada, Ottawa.