Federal Courts Rules

Marginal note:Removal of documents

• 74 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Court may, at any time, order that a document be removed from the Court file if the document

  • (a) was not filed in accordance with these Rules, an order of the Court or an Act of Parliament;

  • (b) is scandalous, frivolous, vexatious or clearly unfounded; or

  • (c) is otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court.

• Marginal note:Opportunity to make submissions

  (2) The Court may only make an order under subsection (1) if all interested parties have been given an opportunity to make submissions.