What is the legal test to determine if an appeal is moot?
Prince Edward Island, Canada
The following excerpt is from Doyle v. R., 2000 PESCTD 88 (CanLII):
In Borowski v. Canada (Attorney General), 1989 CanLII 123 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 342, Sopinka J. provides a very useful outline of the process to be employed to determine if an appeal is moot and, if it is, the factors the court should consider in determining whether it should exercise its discretion to hear the appeal in any event.
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