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Date:20010330

Docket:A-717-00

Neutral citation: 2001 FCA 95

CORAM:        ROTHSTEIN J.A.

EVANS J.A.

MALONE J.A.

BETWEEN:

AB HASSLE and ASTRA PHARMA INC.

Appellants

(Applicants)

                                                                       

                                                                   - and -                               

                                                                       

                                                                                                                                               

THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE

and APOTEX INC.

                                                                                                                             Respondents

                                                                                                                          (Respondents)

Heard at Toronto, Ontario, Thursday, March 29, 2001

Judgment delivered from the Bench at Toronto, Ontario,

on Thursday, March 29, 2001

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:                                     EVANS J.A.                          


                                                                       

Date: 20010330

Docket: A-717-00

                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                              Neutral citation: 2001 FCA 95

CORAM:        ROTHSTEIN J.A.                                           

EVANS J.A.

MALONE J.A.                        

BETWEEN:

AB HASSLE and ASTRA PHARMA INC.

                                                                                                                                Appellants

(Applicants)

                                                                       

                                                                   - and -                               

                                                                       

                                                                                                                                               

THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE

and APOTEX INC.

                                                                                                                             Respondents

                                                                                                                          (Respondents)

                               REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

                                     (Delivered from the Bench at Toronto, Ontario

                                                 on Thursday, March 29, 2001)

EVANS J.A.


We are not persuaded that, in all the circumstances of the case, the Motions Judge committed any reversible error when, in the exercise of her discretion, she dismissed the appeal from the Order of Giles A.S.P. granting Apotex' motion for an extension of time for the completion of cross-examination and for filing its record.

The appeal will be dismissed with costs in any event of the cause.

"John M. Evans"

                                                                                                                                          J.A.                            

                                                                      


                                                                                   FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA

                                    Names of Counsel and Solicitors of Record

DOCKET:                                                        A-717-00

STYLE OF CAUSE:                                         AB HASSLE and ASTRA PHARMA INC.

                                                                                                                                Appellants

(Applicants)

                                                                       

                                                                   - and -                               

                                                                       

                                                                                                                                               

THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE and APOTEX INC.

                                                                                                                             Respondents

                                                                                                                          (Respondents)

DATE OF HEARING:                          THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2001

PLACE OF HEARING:                                    TORONTO, ONTARIO

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

OF THE COURT BY:                          EVANS J.A.                

Delivered at Toronto, Ontario on Monday, March 26, 2001

APPEARANCES:                                           Gunars A. Gaikis, and

J. Sheldon Hamilton

For the Appellant

Andrew R. Brodkin, and

Julie Perrin

                                                                        For the Respondent

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:                       Smart & Biggar

Barristers & Solicitors

438 University Avenue


Suite 1500

Toronto, Ontario

M5G 2K8

For the Appellant

Morris Rosenberg

Deputy Attorney General of Canada

For the Respondent


FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

Date: 20010330

Docket: A-717-00

BETWEEN:

AB HASSLE and ASTRA PHARMA INC.

                                                                                                                                Appellants

(Applicants)

                                                                       

                                                                   - and -                               

                                                                       

                                                                                                                                               

THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE and APOTEX INC.

                                                                                                                             Respondents

                                                                                                                          (Respondents)

                                                                       

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF

THE COURT

                                                                     

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