Do I need a lawyer to prepare and file documents in the Supreme Court of Canada?
Although you may represent yourself at the Supreme Court of Canada, we recommend that you retain a lawyer because the procedures are complex. If you are not a lawyer, you may only represent yourself. If several persons, who are unrepresented by a lawyer, want to apply for leave to appeal of the same court of appeal judgment, one application may be filed, but the application must be signed by all the individual applicants. A corporation, in most cases, must be represented by a lawyer before the Supreme Court. The Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada provide that a corporation must be represented by a lawyer before the Supreme Court unless the corporation was permitted to be represented by a person other than a lawyer in the court appealed from, and it chooses to continue to be represented by that person in the Supreme Court; or on motion, a judge grants the corporation leave to be represented by a person other than a lawyer in accordance with the applicable federal or provincial legisla
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