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The Court of Ontario is the formal legal title describing the combination of both Ontario trial courts — the Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Justice. [ 1 ] As a result of amendments to Ontario's Courts of Justice Act that came into effect in 1999, the Court of Ontario is the continuation of the court previously known as the ...
A judge of the superior trial court of the province without a jury or; A judge of the superior court with a jury; However, if the accused elects trial by a provincial court judge, that judge can decline jurisdiction and refer the case to the superior trial court (section 554). [2]
Criminal law cases heard before the Court are summary conviction offences, less serious indictable offences under section 553 of the Criminal Code, [8] and indictable offences where the defendant has elected to have his or her trial heard in the Ontario Court of Justice (excluding offences found under section 469 of the Criminal Code – murder ...
By the Law Reform Act, 1909, [61] which came into force on 1 January 1913, the Supreme Court of Judicature for Ontario became the Supreme Court of Ontario, with two branches: (1) the Appellate Division; and (2) the High Court Division. The former was only appellate while the latter was a court of original jurisdiction; however, any judge of the ...
The Superior Court of Justice (French: Cour supérieure de justice) is a superior court in Ontario. The Court sits in 52 locations across the province, including 17 Family Court locations, and consists of over 300 federally appointed judges. [1] In 1999, the Superior Court of Justice was renamed from the Ontario Court (General Division).
A criminal information was a proceeding in the King's Bench Division of the High Court brought at the suit of the Crown without a previous indictment. [ 10 ] Criminal informations other than those filed ex officio by the Attorney General were abolished by section 12 of the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1938.
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]
As to the form of an indictment, see the Indictments Act 1915 and the Indictment Rules 1971 made thereunder. The Indictment Rules 1971 were revoked by the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2007 [9] (on the whole) incorporated into the Criminal Procedure Rules 2010. [10] The form and content and the service of an indictment are governed by ...