COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO JUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS Non-Party

The subject-matter of the proceedings: does the proceeding involve a matter of the public interest? b. [...] The first question is whether the subject-matter of the proceeding involves a matter in the public interest. [...] Does the proceeding raise matters of importance to the general public that go beyond the interests of the parties to the dispute?9 b. [...] The third question is the relative financial capacity of the parties to bear the legal costs of the proceedings. [...] In BC Trial Lawyers itself, the British Columbia Court of Appeal was asked to assess the relative financial capacity of the TLABC and the two defendants, the Attorney General of British Columbia and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (who instructed and paid the legal fees of nominally identified individual defendants).