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The court hears appeals from the Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick, Provincial Court of New Brunswick, and various tribunals.Cases tried by the court can be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, but in practice this happens only a few times a year.
The Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick consists of a Chief Justice among 17 judicial seats, [4] plus a number of justices who have elected supernumerary status after many years of service and after having attained eligibility for retirement. [5] This tally does not include the 8 judicial seats assigned for the family court.
The Crown Attorney appealed the decision directly to the New Brunswick Court of Appeal (the normal path would have been through the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick) on 27 May. [55] Karen Selick, one of three lawyers retained by Comeau at the instance of the National Post's deputy comments editor, termed the appeal "a farce". [54]
The Provincial Court of New Brunswick (French: Cour provinciale du Nouveau-Brunswick) is the lower trial court of the province of New Brunswick. It hears cases relating to criminal law and other statutes. The court system of New Brunswick also has a Mental Health Court located in Saint John.
The first is the term "provincial court", which has two quite different meanings, depending on context. The first, and most general meaning, is that a provincial court is a court established by the legislature of a province, under its constitutional authority over the administration of justice in the province, set out in s. 92(14) of the Constitution Act, 1867. [2]
Same-sex marriage has been legal in New Brunswick since June 23, 2005 in accordance with a ruling from the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick. [1] This decision followed similar cases in eight other provinces and territories, and pre-dated by only one month the federal Civil Marriage Act of 2005, which legalised same-sex marriage throughout Canada.
Court of Appeal of New Brunswick; Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick; P. Provincial Court of New Brunswick; S. Section 19 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and ...
The study of unwritten rules is also said to have surfaced in the Supreme Court decisions New Brunswick Broadcasting Co. v. Nova Scotia (Speaker of the House of Assembly) (1993) and Reference re Secession of Quebec (1998), and one scholar called it a "very old and venerable" feature of common law. [38]