Date: 19991217

Docket: A-597-98

CORAM:      ISAAC, J.A.

         McDONALD, J.A.

         SEXTON, J.A.     

BETWEEN:

     SALVATORE GRAMAGLIA

     Appellant

     - and -

     THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

     Respondent

Heard at Calgary, Alberta on Friday, December 17, 1999.

Judgment delivered at Calgary, Alberta on Friday, December 17, 1999.

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:      ISAAC, J.A.

Date: 19991217

Docket: A-597-98

CORAM:      ISAAC, J.A.

         McDONALD, J.A.

         SEXTON, J.A.         

BETWEEN:

SALVATORE GRAMAGLIA

     Appellant

     - and -

     THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

     Respondent

     REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

     (Delivered from the Bench at Calgary (Alberta)

     on Friday, December 17, 1999)

ISAAC, J.A.:

[1]      This is an appeal from an order made by a Motions Judge in the Trial Division, which dismissed the appellant's application for judicial review of a decision of the Vice-Chairman of the Pension Appeals Board dated 6 May, 1997. In his decision the Vice-Chairman refused leave to the appellant to appeal to the Pension Appeals Board from a decision of a Review Tribunal under the Canada Pension Plan.

[2]      We did not find it necessary to call upon counsel for the respondent to make any argument because, after hearing argument from the appellant, who was self-represented, we were all of the view that the appellant did not demonstrate to us that in making the discretionary order that he did, the learned Motions Judge made any error in principle or in law or that he misapprehended the facts of the application before him.

[3]      We would therefore dismiss the appeal.

     "Julius A. Isaac"

     J.A.

     FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

    

Date: 19991217

Docket: A-597-98

BETWEEN:

     SALVATORE GRAMAGLIA

     Appellant

     - and -

     THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

     Respondent

    

     REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

    

     FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA

     APPEAL DIVISION

     NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS ON THE RECORD

COURT FILE NO.:      A-597-98

STYLE OF CAUSE:      SALVATORE GRAMAGLIA v. THE

     ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

PLACE OF HEARING:      CALGARY, Alberta

DATE OF HEARING:      Friday, December 17, 1999

REASONS FOR ORDER OF ISAAC, J.A.

DATED:      December 17, 1999

APPEARANCES:

Mr. Salvatore Gramaglia      for the Appellant

     (acting on his own behalf)

Ms. Mylene Bouzigon      for the Respondent

    

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:

Mr. Salvatore Gramaglia      for the Appellant

Calgary, Alberta      (acting on his own behalf)

Morris Rosenberg

Deputy Attorney General

for Canada

Ottawa, Ontario      for the Respondent