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All of Alberta’s criminal cases start in the Court of Justice, and 95 percent conclude there. Many traffic, regulatory and bylaw enforcement hearings take place at the Alberta Court of Justice. Most civil cases also take place in the Court of Justice, including cases involving landlord and tenant and claims involving less than $100,000. A ...
Since the Supreme Court denies leave in most cases, the Court of Appeal is the final court for most matters originating in Alberta. Unlike the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Appeal has no inherent jurisdiction and therefore requires a statute to grant it the power to hear a matter before a panel is convened.
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.
Five-year-old Nathan O'Brien and his grandparents, Kathryn and Alvin Liknes, disappeared from the Liknes' Calgary, Alberta home after what police called a "violent incident." [1] An amber alert was issued for Nathan. The alert was lifted on July 14, 2014, after the arrest of a person in relation to the disappearance. [2]
Central Alberta Dairy Pool v Alberta (Human Rights Commission), [1990] 2 SCR 489, is a leading human rights law decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.The Court expanded on the concept of accommodation up to undue hardship first established in Ontario (Human Rights Commission) v Simpsons-Sears Ltd, [1985] 2 SCR 536 and provided a set of factors to consider when evaluating undue hardship.
Police had submitted DNA to Othram, Inc., a private laboratory in The Woodlands, Texas, and identified Sanderson in January 2021, after which the case became an active homicide investigation. On June 30, Alberta RCMP publicly identified Sam in a virtual press conference as Gordon Edwin Sanderson, a 26-year-old Indigenous man from Manitoba who ...
Marie McCann (née Waltz) was born October 15, 1932, in Torrington, Alberta, one of seven children. The two were married July 30, 1952, in Torrington, and have resided in St. Albert, Alberta, since 1964. [2] They had three children. [3] Lyle and Marie were 78 and 77 years old, respectively, at the time of their disappearance. [4]
Pridgen v University of Calgary was freedom of speech case which took place in Alberta, Canada, in 2010.The case deals with two university students, Keith and Steven Pridgen, who were found guilty and punished by the University of Calgary in 2008, on grounds of "non-academic misconduct".