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The Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador is the lower trial court of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It hears cases relating to criminal law and family law. Judges of the Provincial Court are appointed by the provincial cabinet, on recommendation of the Attorney General.
List of Newfoundland cases of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases (pre-1949) This page lists cases appealed from the Newfoundland courts to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, prior to 1949. Before 1949, Newfoundland was a separate British possession, with Dominion status from 1907 to 1949.
Newfoundland (Treasury Board) v Newfoundland and Labrador Assn of Public and Private Employees, [2004] 3 S.C.R. 381 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision where the Court held that a fiscal crisis can be the basis for justifying a violation of rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms through section 1.
From 1975 until 2018 the Court of Appeal was constituted as the appeal division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador with judges appointed specifically to hear appeals from the General Division of the Supreme Court. Prior to 1975 both trial and appeals were carried out in the Supreme Court, where the individual judges routinely ...
1.6 Newfoundland and Labrador. 1.7 Northwest Territories. 1.8 Nova Scotia. 1.9 Nunavut. 1.10 Ontario. ... Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador. Northwest ...
Gordon Young, an evangelical pastor of the First Assembly Church of St. John's, asked the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeals in February 2005 to allow him to appeal the ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. While Young had standing in the case because he was granted intervenor status, his appeal did not proceed. [2]
The Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear appeals in both criminal and civil matters from the Provincial Court and designated boards and administrative tribunals. The court also hear serious criminal cases in the first instances, matters of probate, and family law matters. The Supreme Court consists of 28 judicial seats including the position ...
Fry was appointed to the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2007, where she a judge of the Family Division and then senior administrative judge of that division. [2] She is on the board of directors of the National Judges Counselling Program, and previously served as president of the Program.