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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).
These include trial court cases. Typically, these decisions were merely affirmed at the appellate level or were never appealed. Other cases were appeals to courts besides the provincial Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court of Canada. The decisions are listed in chronological order. Abortion trial of Emily Stowe (1879)
"This is an Appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, dated the 15th June 1910, on appeal from a decision of MacMahon, J., of the 26th November 1909. The learned Judges of the Appeal Court were in the result equally divided in opinion, and consequently the decision of MacMahon, J., was affirmed." Lord Macnaghten Lord Robson
This is a comprehensive list of cases originating in Canada decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in Britain.. From 1867 to 1949, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was the highest court of appeal for Canada (and, separately, for Newfoundland, which did not join Canada as a province until 1949).
"This appeal is brought from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada dated the 6th June, 1950, whereby by a majority of four judges to three (Kerwin, Estey, Locke and Cartwright, J.J., Taschereau, Kellock and Fauteux, J.J., dissenting) an appeal by the present respondent, Evelyn McKee, from a judgment of the Court of Appeal for Ontario dated ...
The Ontario Court of Justice is the provincial court of record [6] for the Canadian province of Ontario. The court sits at more than 200 locations across the province and oversees matters relating to family law , criminal law , and provincial offences.
Among the Court of Appeal's most notable decisions was the 2003 ruling in Halpern v Canada (AG) that found defining marriage as between one man and one woman to violate Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, legalizing same-sex marriage in Ontario and making Canada the first jurisdiction in the world where same-sex marriage ...
This page lists all cases of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council originating in Canada, and decided in the years 1940 to 1949. From 1867 to 1949, the JCPC was the highest court of appeal for Canada (and, separately, for Newfoundland). During this period, its decisions on Canadian appeals were binding precedent on all Canadian courts ...