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Kivas Tully (town hall), John Latshaw (courts) Built in 1848 as the St. Catharines town hall. When the county seat moved in 1864, an addition was made to house the courts. Norfolk Simcoe 1863 John Turner No longer in use. Northumberland Cobourg 1856 Kivas Tully: Now Victoria Hall. A new courthouse for Northumberland County has been constructed ...
The Ottawa Courthouse (French: Palais de justice d'Ottawa) is a courthouse in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is the main provincial court for the Ottawa area, and as such handles most of the region's legal affairs. The building is home to the civil, small claims, family, criminal, and district branches of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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.
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).
10 Armoury Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the site of a new courthouse that opened in 2023, consolidating six Ontario Court of Justice criminal courts, 73 judicial hearing rooms, and other court services in one location. The 17-story, 775,000-square-foot tower is the largest courthouse in Ontario.
Evidence of human activity in what is now Ontario dates to approximately 9000 BCE. [1] Summarizing the Indigenous approach to dispute resolution, with particular reference to the Mohawk people, the authors of A History of Law in Canada, volume 1, explain that, "All important matters had to be discussed openly, though after consultation some final council deliberations could occur in secret, at ...
Among many judges from the Court who have been elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada are Justices Rosalie Abella, Louise Arbour, Peter Cory, Louise Charron, Andromache Karakatsanis, Bora Laskin, Michael Moldaver, and Mahmud Jamal, as well as Bertha Wilson, who was the first female justice on both the Court of Appeal for Ontario (1975) and the ...
On Friday March 28, 2014 at approximately 11 a.m. the A. Grenville and William G. Davis courthouse erupted in pandemonium when an armed individual by the name of Charnjit Bassi who went by the nickname of "Sonny", according to Ontario's Special Investigation Unit of Brampton was dressed in a long camel trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses and proceeded to walk into the front entrance of the A ...