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This finally changed when Edmonton became the capital of the new province of Alberta. In 1908, construction began on a new Beaux-Arts/Greek revival courthouse, on what is now the west side of Churchill Square, to the southwest of the current Law Courts where the Edmonton City Centre mall now stands. The building was completed in 1912 and ...
The Alberta Court of Justice (formerly the Provincial Court of Alberta [1]) is the provincial court for the Canadian province of Alberta. The Court oversees matters relating to criminal law, family law, youth law, civil law and traffic law. More than 170,000 matters come before the Court every year.
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.
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. As a court of a province, it is administered by the provincial government. Hearings are held exclusively in Edmonton's Law Courts and the Calgary Courts Centre.
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Supreme Court of Canada building, in Ottawa The Federal Courthouse in Austin is a rare use of modernism in courthouse design. [ 1 ] Calgary Courts Centre , Alberta
Ritu Khullar is a Canadian jurist who currently serves as the Chief Justice of Alberta and Chief Justice of 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.
He was a driving force behind the creation of the Heritage Room at the Edmonton Courthouse, a collection of artifacts and photographs of Alberta's legal history, including portraits of prominent Alberta judges and many of his own writings. [6] After his death, the Alberta Court of Appeal renamed the room the J.W. (Buzz) McClung Heritage Room.