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The Alberta Law Reform Institute (ALRI), the province's law commission, was given a mandate in 2001 to review the Rules of Court and produce recommendations for a new set of Rules. The project goal was to create rules that are clear, useful and effective tools for accessing a fair, timely and cost efficient civil justice system.
The Constitution of Canada is a large number of documents that have been entrenched in the constitution by various means. Regardless of how documents became entrenched, together those documents form the supreme law of Canada; no non-constitutional law may conflict with them, and none of them may be changed without following the amending formula given in Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982.
Nevertheless, Alberta has always had the power to change its own internal composition without the approval of the federal parliament (within limits), and has done so on many occasions. For example Alberta has at various times had both a first-past-the-post and a hybrid single transferable vote / instant-runoff voting electoral system.
The Judicature Act enacted these changes in 1919, and it was proclaimed in 1921. [4] It was not until 1979 that the court changed its name to the "Court of Appeal of Alberta" through the Court of Appeal Act, [5] at the same time that the Supreme Court Trial Division and the District Court were amalgamated and renamed the "Court of Queen's Bench ...
The Alberta Court of Justice is an inferior court of first instance in Alberta, which means decisions from the Court of Justice may be appealed at the Court of King's Bench of Alberta and/or the Court of Appeal of Alberta. The Alberta Court of Justice hears the majority of criminal and civil cases in Alberta. All of Alberta’s criminal cases ...
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.
Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter.
In 2002, there were 62 changes made to the Act. [2]: i–vi This included amendments, references and potential changes to other acts such as the Traffic Safety Act, Vital Statistics Act, Election Act, Health Information Act, [3] Mines and Minerals Act, [4] Electronic Transactions Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Municipal Government Act.