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The Supreme Court of Canada hears appeals from less than 3% of the decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, therefore in a practical sense, the Court of Appeal is the last avenue of appeal for most litigants in Ontario. [2] Among the Court of Appeal's most notable decisions was the 2003 ruling in Halpern v Canada (AG) that found defining ...
A select number of decisions from the courts of appeal have proven to be the leading case law in a number of fields and have subsequently been adopted across all provinces, or else they are famous decisions in their own right. Most frequently the decisions were never appealed or were denied leave to the Supreme Court of Canada. The notable ...
1.10 Ontario. 1.11 Prince Edward Island. 1.12 Quebec. 1.13 Saskatchewan. 1.14 Yukon. 2 See also. ... Federal Court of Appeal. Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada ...
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 ...
The court's authority comes from the Federal Courts Act. On October 24, 2008, the Federal Court was given its own armorial bearings by the Governor General, the third court in Canada to be given its own coat of arms – after the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada and Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The coat of arms features a newly ...
The first is the term "provincial court", which has two quite different meanings, depending on context. The first, and most general meaning, is that a provincial court is a court established by the legislature of a province, under its constitutional authority over the administration of justice in the province, set out in s. 92(14) of the Constitution Act, 1867. [2]
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In 1999, the Superior Court of Justice was renamed from the Ontario Court (General Division). The Superior Court is one of two divisions of the Court of Ontario. The other division is the lower court, the Ontario Court of Justice. [1] The Superior Court has three specialized branches: Divisional Court, Small Claims Court, and Family Court.