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The court is led by the Chief Justice of the Alberta Court of Justice, who is appointed by the provincial government to serve a seven-year term. There are more than 130 full-time Justices in the Alberta Court of Justice, [ 2 ] working out of more than 70 locations [ 3 ] across the province.
The court originated from the old Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories which was replaced by the Supreme Court of Alberta in 1907 (shortly after Alberta became a province in 1905). The new Supreme Court of Alberta comprised a trial division and an appellate division (essentially, brother justices of the Supreme Court sitting en banc with ...
Due to controversy about the appointment, the federal government referred the constitutionality of the appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. In their decision in Reference Re Supreme Court Act, ss 5 and 6, the Supreme Court quashed his appointment, concluding he did not meet the eligibility criteria provided in the Supreme Court Act. [43]
On June 30, 1979, the Supreme Court Trial Division was renamed the "Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta". The district courts created in 1907 were amalgamated into the District Court of Northern Alberta and the District Court of Southern Alberta in 1935, merging altogether into the District Court of Alberta in 1975.
The Law Courts building is the main courthouse in the city of Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, Canada. It hosts hearings of the Provincial Court of Alberta, the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, and the Court of Appeal of Alberta. [1] The courthouse is located at 1A Sir Winston Churchill Square, in downtown Edmonton. The building was designed ...
Patricia A. Rowbotham, KC (born Dec. 8, 1953) is a Canadian judge who is currently a Justice at the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [1]She earned an LL.B. in 1981 from the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary and an LL.M. from Cambridge University in 1984.
Ritu Khullar is a Canadian jurist who currently serves as the Chief Justice of Alberta, the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories, and the Nunavut Court of Appeal. [2] She was appointed on November 28, 2022, and sworn in on February 23, 2023. Prior to the Court of Appeal, Justice Khullar was appointed to the Court of King's Bench of ...
After his provincial political career, Germain continued to work as a lawyer in Fort McMurray, Alberta and was later appointed as a justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta. In 2007 he was awarded the 2007 Faculty of Law Sessional Teaching Excellence Award by the University of Alberta .