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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 ...
From 1867 to 1949, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was the highest court of appeal for Canada (and, separately, for Newfoundland, which did not join Canada as a province until 1949). During this period, its decisions on Canadian appeals were binding precedent on all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
The process of probate in Ontario is a legal process where a court approves the validity of a will and grants authority to the executor named in the will to distribute the deceased person's assets according to the instructions in the will. The process involves several steps. [3]
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 ...
Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada are subject to the legal requirement that three judges must be appointed from Quebec. By convention, the other 6 are appointed from Ontario (3), Western Canada (2), and Atlantic Canada (1). These appointments are not subject to the procedures described above for the appointment of superior court ...
"This is an appeal by special leave from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada, dated the 2nd May, 1922, on a reference by the Governor-General in Council under Section 60 of the Supreme Court Act (R.S.C. 1906, c. 139) of certain questions touching the right of the Honourable Horace Harvey, notwithstanding the statutes passed by the ...
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
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.