An appeal court will not permit re-opening of an appeal to raise issues (including costs) that were not agitated at the hearing and were in effect abandoned, absent a legitimate explanation for the change of course. The potential prejudice to the respondent from having to hypothetically reconstruct how the appeal might have been conducted differently is itself a sufficient ground for refusing re-opening.
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