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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.
Lords of the Western Bench: A Biographical History of the Supreme and District Courts of Alberta, 1876-1990. Calgary: Legal Archives Society of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9681939-0-7. Mittelstadt, David (2014). People Principles Progress: The Alberta Court of Appeal's First Century 1914 to 2014 (PDF). Calgary: The Legal Archives Society of Alberta.
Candidates must have either been a judge of a superior court or a lawyer for at least ten years in their province's bar. [39] Appointments are made by the Governor General of Canada on advice of the Prime Minister. [39] Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada are subject to the legal requirement that three judges must be appointed from Quebec.
Considers appointment proposals for application judges, [14] Provincial Court judges, and justices of the peace; deals with complaints against persons in these positions, enforces applicable conflict of interest and code of ethics regulations. Justice: Law Society of Alberta: Regulatory/Adjudicative
Judicial Inquiry Board Manitoba Justice: The Board was established to investigate complaints alleging misconduct by Provincial Court judges, judicial justices of the peace, and masters of the Court of King's Bench; and to conduct proceedings before the Judicial Council when charges of misconduct are laid. Manitoba Labour Board: labour relations
This includes Judge Dena M. Coggins, the first Black and Asian American woman to serve as a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, which covers Sacramento ...
Ritu Khullar is a Canadian jurist who currently serves as the Chief Justice of Alberta, 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.
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.